Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), Estampes, L108 (1903) Performed by Pascal Rogé 00:00 - No. 1 Pagodes (Pagodas) 05:11 - No. 2 La soirée dans Grenade (The Evening in Granada) 11:00 - No. 3 Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain) Estampes (Engravings) is the title of the triptych of three pieces which Debussy put together in 1903. The first complete performance was given on 9 January 1904 in the Salle Erard, Paris, by the young Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes, who was already emerging as the prime interpreter of the new French music of Debussy and Ravel. The first two pieces were completed in 1903, but the third derives from an earlier group of pieces from 1894, collectively titled Images, which remained unpublished until 60 years after Debussy’s death, when they were printed as Images (oubliées). Estampes marks an expansion of Debussy’s keyboard style: he was apparently spurred to fuse neo-Lisztian technique with a sensitive, impressionistic pictorial impulse under