Mitsuko Uchida, 1990.
Frenchman meets piano.
Explores new parameters of tonality and keyboard colourism in fin de siecle France.
Moves on to be proclaimed avant garde.
Total number of memorable tunes not so large.
Japanese pianist comes across 12 Etudes in 1990 and records them.
Clarity, colour, chilled representations.
Admirable, classy, ornamental music - technically impressive.
I really like Mitsuko Uchida's piano playing - we have her doing all Mozart and Schubert solo stuff, and I wouldn't be without it.
This is not my favourite Debussy, however - I prefer the more "substantial" piano works, the ones with cute Gothic or otherwise nicknames.
Music for the brain rather than the heart?
7/10.
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