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Debussy: Préludes, Livre I & II
Pianist Alice Testrup was born in Copenhagen in 1929. She spent the years 1947-50 at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music where she gained her Diploma examination under Christian Christiansen. In 1951 Alice Testrup took her soloist examination and gave her debut concert at the Conservatory.
The following years Alice Testrup went to New York on a Fullbright scholarship as a student at Juilliard School of Music. Later she returned to Europe where she after attending a course by Carlo Zecchi in Salzburg gave a concert with the Mozarteum Orchestra. After that she went on a European tour with violinist Poul Doktor.
From 1956 Alice Testrup gave several concerts in Tivoli Concert Hall, e.g. Kuhlau’s piano concerto, and in the Odd Fellow Palace as well as she made several recordings for German, Austrian and Danish Radio. During
that period she played as soloist with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
In 1957 Alice Testrup started tutoring private pupils and in 1966 she started as teacher at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. There she was until 1992, except for one year where she studied at Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Tracklist:
1. I Danseuses de Delphes
2. II Voiles
3. III Le vent dans la plaine
4. IV Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
5. V Les collines d’Anacapri
6. VI Des pas sur la neige
7. VII Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
8. VIII La fille aux cheveux de lin
9. IX La sérénade interrompue
10. X La cathédrale engloutie
11. XI La danse de Puck
12. XII Minstrels
13. I Brouillards
14. II Feuilles mortes
15. III La puerta del Vino
16. IV “Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses”
17. V Bruyères
18. VI “General Lavine”
19. VII La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
20. VIII Ondine
21. IX Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C
22. X Canope
23. XI Les tierces alternées
24. XII Feux d’artifice
Released on the following formats:
CD and digitally on all major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.).
You can check it out by using this link: https://bfan.link/debussy-preludes