Images - Premiere Série

The specialist's opinion

'' Did you play the Images…?

Without false vanity, I believe that these three pieces hold together well and that they will take their place in the literature of the piano .

.. to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it. '' It is in these words that Debussy addressed himself in a letter of 1905 to his friend the editor Jacques Durand. His prophecy was about to come true. These pieces are now an integral part of the piano repertoire. We were going to forget: The slow movement, Hommage à Rameau, draws its inspiration from a performance of Castor and Pollux, which, in 1903, had thrilled Debussy, this innovator not denying the tradition.