Uploaded February 2010 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
The best version I have ever heard of Debussy's first piece from Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner Suite", 'Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum' is performed here by Sergei Kvitko ~ sergeikvitko.com & bluegriffin.com/index.php/BGR-Artists/Sergei-Kvitko.html
The title of this piece references Classical-era composer (and father of modern piano technique) Muzio Clementi's instructional pieces entitled 'Gradus ad Parnassum' or 'Steps to Parnassus'; Parnassus being a mountain, but also in Greek mythology, a sacred site of the nine muses, the champions of the arts. Clementi's work, in turn, was based upon a particularly famous Prelude, the first piece in Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".
The wonderful CD can be purchased at bluegriffin.com/index.php/Compact-Disks/Of-Lands-and-People-Far-Away/flypage.tpl.html or at Amazon ~ amazon.com/Lands-People-Far-Away/dp/B001DQYCCW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265068116&sr=1-1
The best version I have ever heard of Debussy's first piece from Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner Suite", 'Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum' is performed here by Sergei Kvitko ~ sergeikvitko.com & bluegriffin.com/index.php/BGR-Artists/Sergei-Kvitko.html
The title of this piece references Classical-era composer (and father of modern piano technique) Muzio Clementi's instructional pieces entitled 'Gradus ad Parnassum' or 'Steps to Parnassus'; Parnassus being a mountain, but also in Greek mythology, a sacred site of the nine muses, the champions of the arts. Clementi's work, in turn, was based upon a particularly famous Prelude, the first piece in Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier".
The wonderful CD can be purchased at bluegriffin.com/index.php/Compact-Disks/Of-Lands-and-People-Far-Away/flypage.tpl.html or at Amazon ~ amazon.com/Lands-People-Far-Away/dp/B001DQYCCW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265068116&sr=1-1
