Sunken Cathedral

Album by Claude Debussy & Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Vincent Persichetti & Chip Davis & Jackson Berkey

Sunken Cathedral is a solo piano prelude by French composer Claude Debussy, composed in 1910. The piece exemplifies musical impressionism through its use of modal harmonies, parallel chordal textures and shifting sonorities to evoke the image of a submerged cathedral, and it sits among Debussy's early 20th-century piano works as an exploration of timbre and atmosphere.
First released: 1978

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    La Cathédrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)
    8:15
  2. 2.
    Prelude in G-sharp minor, op. 32, no. 12
    2:40
  3. 3.
    Deux Arabesques: No. 1 (First Arabesque)
    4:26
  4. 4.
    Ninth Piano Sonata, op. 58: Moderato-allegro agilite-larghetto-allegro risoluto
    9:32
  5. 5.
    Interlude 6
    3:10