Images / Nocturnes

Album by Claude Debussy & Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Charles Dutoit

Nocturnes (composed 1897–1899) and Images (orchestral, composed 1905) are orchestral works by Claude Debussy. They exemplify Debussy's impressionistic orchestral language, with colouristic instrumentation, modal and whole-tone harmonic gestures and shifting textures, and mark his development away from late-Romantic models towards a distinctively modern French orchestral sound.

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  1. 1.
    Images for Orchestra, L. 122 No. 1: Gigues
    7:30
  2. 2.
    Images for Orchestra, L. 122 No. 2: Ibéria: I. Par les rues et par les chemins
    7:20
  3. 3.
    Images for Orchestra, L. 122 No. 2: Ibéria: II. Les parfums de la nuit
    8:16
  4. 4.
    Images for Orchestra, L. 122 No. 2: Ibéria: III. Le matin d'un jour de fête
    4:27
  5. 5.
    Images for Orchestra, L. 122 No. 3: Rondes de printemps
    7:38
  6. 6.
    Nocturnes, L. 91 No. 1: Nuages
    7:50
  7. 7.
    Nocturnes, L. 91 No. 2: Fêtes
    6:19
  8. 8.
    Nocturnes, L. 91 No. 3: Sirènes
    10:56

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