Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque

Claude Helffer

1972/1988: Harmonia Mundi HMA 190954

Images I

1. Reflets dans l’eau / Reflections in the water
2. Hommage à Rameau / Homage to Rameau
3. Mouvement / Movement

   
   Images II

4. Cloches à travers les feuilles / Bells (heard) through the leaves
5. Et la lune descend sur le temps [sic] qui fut / And the moon descends on the temple that used to be
6. Poissons d’or / Goldfish

   
   Children’s Corner

7. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
8. Jimbo’s Lullaby
9. Serenade For the Doll
10. The Snow Is Dancing
11. The Little Shepherd
12. Golliwogg’s Cake Walk

    
    Suite Bergamasque

13. Prélude
14. Menuet
15. Clair de lune
16. Passepied

    
    Deux Arabesques

17. Premiè Arabesque
18. Deuxième Arabesque

Until I have a chance to write a little about this particular album, which is one I cherish for sentimental reasons, I do want to note that the English translations provided above for Images are from the album’s liner notes—they’re not mine.

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Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.