CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Rising-star pianist Arsenii Moon not only won the 64th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 2023, he was also presented with its prestigious Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award and Audience Prize. Here he gives a bravura performance of Feux d’artifice, the final work in Debussy’s second book of Préludes (1913). This dazzling depiction of cascading Bastille Day fireworks ends with a brief quotation from La Marseillaise, France’s national anthem, fading into the distance.