{"id":1467,"date":"2018-04-21T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:32:21","slug":"debussy-a-painter-in-sound-by-stephen-walsh-faber-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Debussy: A Painter in Sound by Stephen Walsh, Faber, \u00a320"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1468\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1468\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1468 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J9pisod-L._SX319_BO1204203200_-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J9pisod-L._SX319_BO1204203200_-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J9pisod-L._SX319_BO1204203200_.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are an admirer of the greatest of all French Impressionist composers (with Ravel running him a close second), your library will probably sport several biographies of Claude Debussy. So why should Stephen Walsh\u2019s new attempt to assess the life and achievement of the composer be worthy of your attention? The answer &#8212; quite simply \u2013 is that it is one of the most astute and sympathetic studies of the composer that you are likely to read. In fact, Walsh\u2019s own description, \u2018A biography of sorts\u2019, suggests the particularly astute balancing act he performs between celebrating the exquisite music and the turbulent life of this difficult, temperamental man. Walsh\u2019s study, couched in elegant prose, never falls into the simply sequential. With fresh insights into such masterpieces as La Mer as well as little-known works such as Debussy\u2019s unfinished opera based on Poe\u2019s \u2018Fall of the House of Usher\u2019, this becomes at a stroke a definitive guide to the life and work of a great French composer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Barry Forshaw<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are an admirer of the greatest of all French Impressionist composers (with Ravel running him a close second), your library will probably sport several biographies of Claude Debussy. So why should Stephen Walsh\u2019s new attempt to assess the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=1467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}