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Thibaudet conjures Debussy’s distinctive sonic landscapes at Carnegie Hall
Jean-Yves Thibaudet performed Debussy’s comprehensive Préludes (Guides I and II) Sunday at Carnegie Corridor. As a person learns to play the piano, the initially arms-on encounter with the tunes of Claude Debussy opens a new seem world. The significant box with hammers and strings, which Beethoven employed to argue, Chopin to sing, and Liszt to amaze, seems to dissolve into wind and h2o and clouds—if a person can purchase the skills to make the magic take place. That 1st experience might nicely be with a single of the character parts Debussy referred to as Préludes, pursuing the illustrations of Chopin and Bach. He released them in two books of twelve…