December 22, 2022

Debussy Prelude no. 2, book 2: "Dead Leaves"

Debussy paints a musical depiction of dead leaves with dissonant harmonies and eerie and fragmented lines in his "Feuilles mortes," Prelude no. 2 from the second volume of preludes. It shows a lot of his typical features such as sequential rather than functional harmony, block chords, and a maximal use of different piano registers. With Henrik Kilhamn, piano. The piece was a Patreon request by L. von Geist. Video: https://youtu.be/pWmycfBX2zg

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