Claude Debussy - La puerta del Vino
"La puerta del Vino," from Préludes, by Claude Debussy.
Paul Sánchez, piano. Live performance, October 2012, Chicago, Illinois.
"But where [Debussy] reveals precisely how much he was influenced by deep song is in the marvelous prelude titled La Puerta del Vino and in the vague, tender Soirée en Grenade, where, I think, one can find all the emotional themes of nighttime in Granada, the blue remoteness of the Vega, the Sierra greeting the tremulous Mediterranean, the enormous barbs of the clouds sunk into the distance, the admirable rubato of the city, the hallucinating play of its underground waters." - Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Christopher Maurer in his book "In Search of Duende," (New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998) 9.
Background image: Photoglob Co., Publisher. Granada. Alhambra. Puerta del Vino. Granada Spain, ca. 1890. [Zürich, Switzerland: Photoglob Company, to 1906] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017660757/.
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