Jean-François Zygel: La Leçon De Musique: Debussy (2005)

Music has never had more rhythms, spontaneous, gushing, unexpected, unpublished, never has it harmonies richer and rarer. Never has music had more rhythms, spontaneous, gushing, unexpected, unpublished, never had harmonies richer and rarer, never an orchestra has had more voices and sounds, to realize It is, I think, impossible for a listener who is not too recalcitrant not to feel, at this music, awaken a thousand memories or impressions asleep, of which he is astonished that they Not be forgotten forever: shimmering a ray, fleeing from a wave, the roar of a rock or the caress of a blade that bursts its bubbles on the sand from which it folds.