Quatuor en sol mineur, op. 10 / Sonate pour violoncelle et piano

Album by Claude Debussy & Quatuor Pascal & Raya Garbousova & Artur Balsam

Quatuor en sol mineur, Op. 10 and the Sonate pour violoncelle et piano are compositions by Claude Debussy, composed in 1893 and 1915 respectively. The string quartet illustrates Debussy's early exploration of harmonic colour, cyclical motifs and flexible formal design within the chamber-music tradition, while the later cello sonata, part of his final chamber output, presents a more concise, economical language characterised by modal inflections, spare textures and a shift toward clarity amid the wartime period.