Debussy: Piano Music Vol 2 (Including: Preludes, Book 1; Children's Corner )

"Noriko Ogawa, who took the third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition, has made a number of very impressive recordings for BIS. This is the second in her Debussy solo piano series and she proves herself, in Bryce Morrison's words, 'a most elegant, scrupulously sensitive interpreter of "music like a dream from which one draws away the veil" (Debussy).'"
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2003)

When BIS launched Noriko Ogawa's Debussy series (Volume I: BIS-CD-1105) the critics were enthusiastic. "Ogawa's playing has immense sensibility and command - an excellent start to this cycle." (Gramophone)", "a Debussy interpreter of exceptional class." (International Record Review) and "Musik in Feinarbeit, deren Fortsetzung nachdrücklich zu wünschen ist." (Piano News) are only some of the reactions to the first volume. The series now continues with some of the best-known - and best-loved - music Debussy ever wrote. The first book of Preludes and Children's Corner belong to those rare works which form part of the repertoire of both performers and happy amateurs. But however well-known La fille aux cheveux de lin or Golliwogg's cake-walk may be, Noriko Ogawa manages to create them anew for us with an approach that can described with a quote from a review of the previous instalment: "almost Mozartian in its clarity, delicacy and impeccable sense of proportion." (BBC Music Magazine). That she also treats us to some rarities, such as Debussy's homage to Haydn, and rounds of the program with the delightful waltz La plus que lente only adds to the attraction!.