Claude Debussy instead "an exquisite, pellucid style" capable of conveying "not only gaiety and whimsicality but emotion of a deeper sort". In a 2004 study, Mark DeVoto comments that Debussy's early works are harmonically no more adventurous than existing music by Fauré; in a 2007 book about the piano works, Margery Halford observes that "Deux arabesques" (1888–1891) and "Rêverie" (1890) have "the fluidity and warmth of Debussy's later style" but are not harmonically innovative. Halford cites the popular "Clair de Lune" (1890) from the "Suite Bergamasque" as a transitional work pointing towards the composer's mature style. Musicians from Debussy's time onwards have
Cendres de lune the music was produced by Laurent Boutonnat who used mostly synthesizers and acoustic keyboards and was inspired by the new wave. "Cendres de lune" was generally well received by critics. It was considered as an "excellent" album ("Gaipied"), a "success" ("Podium"), "a first album rather masterly" ("La Provence"), "in the area of the variety, one of the most beautiful things of the moment" ("Les Gran"). "Full of little marvels" ("Charente"), it contains "hits having an wholesome impertinence" ("Télé Poche") and "provides a real insight of [Farmer]'s talent"; [the singer] carries us with her crystalline voice and strange texts, out of