Claude Debussy - Preludes

" Piano Preludes were written at the apogee of the composer`s creative capacity: Book 1 in 1910, Book 2 in 1913. In the vast domain of piano music by Debussy, who was also, especially in his youth, a performing pianist, the Preludes - by concentrating and refining his previous experience in this field - mark the ultimate of his piano style{...}.
Motives and themes from various spheres of nature and culture - old, archaic, more recent and contemporary - are interwoven hewre and pervade the music freely, with great charm and lyric mood, a sense of humour, irony and grotesque, vitality and reflection. The musical imagination of the composer plays with the reality of images, for Debussy was above all a true-born musician, in a typically French sense{...}."
                Bohdan Pociej