Debussy, The Sea / Seong-Jin Cho: Outside the Walls

There is no need to have before one's eyes what one is setting to music. If Saint-Saëns stayed in Luxor at the time of his Fifth Piano Concerto , aptly called "The Egyptian", Claude Debussy lingered in Burgundy when he sketched out La Mer: the filter of memories is worth more than a daily reality, especially to erect a sound poem of this scope, an abstract symphony in three movements which goes so far as to capture the elusive.