Jan Michiels - Preludes, Interludes, Postludes: Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti

In this recording, Jan Michiels transports us back to the Parisian salons of the 19th�century.These were not only an ideal environment for Chopin�� his Pr�ludes op.�28 are a recurring thread throughout this album�� but also for Debussy, whose Pr�ludes are closely correlated with those of Chopin.

Michiels opens his salon to various visitors: first Alfred Cortot, whose Chopin interpretations captivated generations of pianists, then Gy�rgy Ligeti and finally his friend Gy�rgy Kurt�g.

Michiels likes to dream that the 1894 �rard grand piano on which the Pr�ludes by Chopin and Debussy were recorded might once have adorned a salon that Proust visited.

�I wondered whether music was not the only example of how souls might have communicated if language had not been invented, words formulated and ideas analysed. It is like a possibility that has not been acted upon.