Summary: "C & D for Claude Debussy" Along with Ravel's, Debussy's string quartet stands as a standard bearer for the French quartet, and possibly for the entire genre in the neo-Romantic style. Its sensuality and impressionistic tonal shifts make it a piece absolutely of its time and place while, with its cyclic structure, it constitutes a final divorce from the rules of classical harmony and points the way ahead. Details at our archive page @ http://archive.org/details/DebussyAnniversary-Part2
