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Claude Debussy's rich and evocative depiction of the underwater realm remains an impressionistic milestone, a classic of its type. But what makes La Mer so good? Ever-resistant to the confines of ...

To start a new Debussy series with the most popular of all his orchestral works immediately puts these performances up against some of the finest in the CD catalogue, and even at Naxos's price, they ...

Debussy's fantastical, Impressionistic vision of the Mediterranean sea is one of the great masterpieces of the symphonic literature. Charles Munch... Waves of Sound: Debussy's La Mer Waves of Sound: ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

A century ago, Claude Debussy's symphonic tone poem "La Mer" premiered in Paris. Conductors Pierre Boulez and David Robertson talk about the subtle and impressionistic harmonies of this milestone ...

(The) Seafarer Trio Willard White, Vocalist/voice Sally Beamish, Composer Trio Apaches Beamish’s arrangement for piano trio works very nicely, the two strings adding more variety of colour than a ...

La Mer, composed between 1903 and 1905, is Debussy's most popular and widely performed concert work. If impressionism means anything at all in music then this score is its epitome in orchestral terms.

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One hundred years ago Saturday, classical music witnessed a sea change — quite literally. On Oct. 15, 1905, French composer Claude Debussy's symphonic portrait of the sea, called "La Mer," premiered ...