Debussy: La musique de Chambre - Kuijken (2000)

Claude Debussy
La musique de chambre
String Quartet Op. 10; Syrinx
Sonata for Cello and Piano, Sonata for Violin and Piano
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Sigiswald, Veronica, Sara, Wieland, Barthold & Piet Kuijken,
Sophie Hallynck
Arcana A 303


This jolly Belgian family, while peeking outside their Baroque soundscape, must have fallen under the spell of Claude Debussy. Hardly surprising to me, of course, yet very intriguing. Music, they say, should have no boundaries, and the Kuijkens' approach to both the early and late masterpieces by the genius of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is refreshing, fully committed and with a hint of true discovery, that makes this album all the more interesting.

Needless to say, period instruments are used, from Sigiswald's Franciscus Bovis 1899 violin to Sophie Hallynck's Erard Harp (1926).


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