TONAL REFINEMENT

Cédric Tiberghien plays Debussy Preludes,
reviewed by BILL NEWMAN

I am a great admirer of the pianist, but sometimes I do wish that I had not started to listen seriously to music from 1950 onwards. I heard Cortot and Gieseking -- just once, followed by Klaus Schilde, Aldo Ciccolini, Robert Casadesus, Albert Ferber, Vlado Perlemuter -- all in Debussy, each at one of the main London concert halls. One cultivates opinions rather early, that live on, in the mind...

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

FRANCE

WIGMORE HALL

LONDON

UNITED KINGDOM

PIANO MUSIC