Word: midi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performances and recordings that are nothing less than revelatory. Without any loss of subtlety, he has brought Debussy out of the mists. His reading of La Mer shapes all the surge and ebb of the score into crystalline lines and proportions. He heightens the texture of L'apres-midi d'un faune by building a cunning pattern of contrasts in mood and dynamics. In the ballet score Jeux, Boulez delineates the surprising variety of rhythmic pulses to be found within Debussy's floating tempos...