DEBUSSY: Preludes, Books 1 & 2 [CD de audio] Catherine Collard and Debussy

Debussy published these 24 pieces, in two books of 12 each, in 1910 and 1913; they thus date from the watershed between the composer's impressionistic middle period and the striking neo-Classicism of his later years. The Prludes are immensely varied in character, from the tender 'Fille aux cheveux de lin' to the impassioned, brilliant 'Feux d'artifice.'