Description
Debussy's Estampes cycle creates a poetic world of landscapes and distant lands through its three movements: "Pagodes," "La soirée dans Grenade" (An Evening in Granada), and "Jardins sous la pluie" (Gardens in the Rain). Composed in the summer of 1903 while Debussy was staying in Bichain, northern Burgundy, the pieces reflect his belief that "if one cannot afford to travel, one substitutes the imagination," as he wrote in a letter at the time. The virtuosic final movement draws on Debussy's pioneering Images from 1894 (HN 846).
