STUDIES AND OTHER PIANOFORTE PIECES
BY DEBUSSY
Played by NIEDZIELSKI
Nuages (Clouds) (Nocturne. Pianoforte Arrangement by Gustave Samazeuihl )
Etude pour les sixtes (Study in sixths)
Etude pour les notes repetees (Study in repeated
Notes)
AMONG Debussy's best.known music for orchestra is a set of three Nocturnes, of which Nuages is the first. Like nearly all his music, it conveys a vivid, although dreamy, impression of the image which inspired it, and as one listens, it is easy to imagine the ' clouds ' of its title, as they sail across the sky. In the orchestral version it begins with a long rolling theme on clarinets and bassoons, which persists throughout the greater part of the piece. Toward the end it makes way for another section in which the movement almost ceases, and, at the close; it dies away in the softest tone.
So much of Debussy's pianoforte music has been arranged for orchestral and other instrumental performance that there is a special interest in hearing one of his orchestral pieces in an arrangement for pianoforte.