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Debussy : Complete Works for Piano

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Classical - Released October 1, 2012 | Chandos

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Praised for his meticulous fidelity to the composer's intentions, as well as for his rich tonal palette and the warmth of his expressions, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has won many admirers for his five albums of the complete solo piano music of Claude Debussy. These recordings were produced by Chandos between 2007 and 2009, and they have now been gathered into a handsome box set; each disc is presented with its own cardboard sleeve and the original liner notes that accompanied each release. The roster of artists who have recorded Debussy's keyboard music is a long and distinguished one, though Bavouzet is easily ranked in the upper echelons, equal in stature among such luminaries as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Krystian Zimerman, Maurizio Pollini, Angela Hewitt, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Pascal Rogé. Experienced listeners will already have favorite recordings of the Préludes, Images, Estampes, and Études, as well as the perennially popular Suite bergamasque, Children's Corner, and other picturesque pieces. However, many will be won over by the consistency of Bavouzet's playing, and newcomers will find that his disciplined yet gorgeous readings are a great way to begin appreciating these charming classics. Chandos provides excellent sound that gives the piano a clear presence yet takes nothing away from Bavouzet's atmospheric colors or the radiant acoustics. Highly recommended.© TiVo
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Debussy : Préludes - Satie: Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes

Fazil Say

Solo Piano - Released August 31, 2018 | Warner Classics

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The remarkable Turkish pianist Fazıl Say (born 1970) here offers us a suitably remarkable album, recorded in 2016 in the Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum and given over to the Premier Livre of Debussy's Préludes – 1910 – which he sets up in against the six Gnossiennes by Satie (1890 for the first three, 1897 for the latter three) and to the pieces which made him famous, the Gymnopédies of 1888. It's quite stunning to hear these works and to reflect on the fact that Satie's works actually come before Debussy's Préludes – by almost two decades, in fact. It is hardly surprising the Satie has been thought a real avant-gardist both in his day and by minimalists today. Considering how different these two were, it was natural that they should have been friends, especially given Debussy's tendency towards jealousy of his contemporaries... But it is impossible to be jealous of a kind, bubbly soul like Satie. Say brings immense tenderness to these two opposite poles – poles so far removed that they almost join back up. © SM/Qobuz
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Debussy

Jean-Paul Gasparian

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | naïve

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Debussy: Préludes, Livres 1 & 2

Vestard Shimkus

Classical - Released March 31, 2023 | ARTALINNA

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Debussy: Piano Works

Walter Gieseking

Classical - Released October 10, 1996 | Warner Classics

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Debussy: Complete Works for Piano

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Classical - Released October 1, 2012 | Chandos

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Praised for his meticulous fidelity to the composer's intentions, as well as for his rich tonal palette and the warmth of his expressions, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has won many admirers for his five albums of the complete solo piano music of Claude Debussy. These recordings were produced by Chandos between 2007 and 2009, and they have now been gathered into a handsome box set; each disc is presented with its own cardboard sleeve and the original liner notes that accompanied each release. The roster of artists who have recorded Debussy's keyboard music is a long and distinguished one, though Bavouzet is easily ranked in the upper echelons, equal in stature among such luminaries as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Krystian Zimerman, Maurizio Pollini, Angela Hewitt, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Pascal Rogé. Experienced listeners will already have favorite recordings of the Préludes, Images, Estampes, and Études, as well as the perennially popular Suite bergamasque, Children's Corner, and other picturesque pieces. However, many will be won over by the consistency of Bavouzet's playing, and newcomers will find that his disciplined yet gorgeous readings are a great way to begin appreciating these charming classics. Chandos provides excellent sound that gives the piano a clear presence yet takes nothing away from Bavouzet's atmospheric colors or the radiant acoustics. Highly recommended.© TiVo
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Debussy : Préludes du 1er Livre - Estampes

Javier Perianes

Solo Piano - Released November 30, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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On the dawn of his fortieth birthday, the Spanish pianist Javier Perianes should be more than proud of his dazzling career. Among the places that regularly welcome him we find Carnegie Hall, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Philharmonie de Paris, Gewandhaus in Leipzig and La Roque d'Anthéron. Barenboim and Larrocha were his masters. He is particularly fond of the great French repertoire of Debussy and Ravel, though he never focuses solely on them - his previous recordings have taken him to Beethoven, Mompou, Schubert or Granados. Here, he remains in the French world with Debussy's Book I from Preludes and his three Estampes, the composer’s piano masterpiece, which Perianes distils with immense instrumental colour, breathing, contrasts and a magnificent violence that counterbalances a crystal clearness at every moment, as requested by the score. © SM/Qobuz
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Dupont: La maison dans les dunes - Debussy: Images

Severin von Eckardstein

Classical - Released September 28, 2018 | ARTALINNA

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Considered as one of the most inspired pianists of his generation, Severin von Eckardstein explores three major cycles of French music from the 1900s, associating Claude Debussy’s two revolutionary books Images (1904-1907) and Gabriel Dupont’s La Maison dans les dunes (1907-1909) as part of this debut album under the Artalinna label: this suite of 10 pieces with memorable atmospheres filled with luminous colours and heady melodies will stand out for many as a musical revelation! © Artalinna
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Debussy: Mélodies

Gérard Souzay

Mélodies - Released September 14, 2016 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Debussy: Préludes

Francesco Piemontesi

Classical - Released October 9, 2015 | naïve

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Day after day, week after week, there are so many piano recordings to wade through, and very few, alas, are worth listening to. But this new recording of Debussy’s Préludes is extraordinary. The pianist Francesco Piemontesi is a disciple of Alfred Brendel, Perahia, Alexis Weissenberg, and especially Cécile Ousset, who gave him a sheet-note copy of these Préludes as annotated by Marcel Ciampi – upon which the indications of Debussy himself were included. Piemontesi is, unquestionably, at the top of his technical game, this almost doesn’t need mentioning, and he works hard to get all kinds of conceivable shades out of his piano – especially the most impossible and unimaginable. A piano evoking such a variety of colours is more than just a scarcity; it is something unusual, and, in the hands of Piemontesi, it reaches the heights of the ‘orchestral’. His pianistic pallet is infinite in its sonorities, his handling of the instrument like black magic. A truly great Debussy interpretation that unfolds the revelations of the original partition. © SM/Qobuz
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Debussy: 24 Préludes

Friedrich Gulda

Accordion - Released February 7, 1969 | MPS Classical

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Samson François & Debussy (Remastered 2010)

Samson François

Classical - Released April 18, 2012 | Parlophone (France)

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Debussy: Préludes

George Lepauw

Classical - Released October 21, 2022 | Orchid Classics

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Franco-American pianist George Lepauw returns to Orchid Classics with the complete Preludes for piano by Claude Debussy. Lepauw has released several highly successful albums with Orchid, including Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. The ambition of those releases is matched by this recording of both books of Debussy’s Preludes, which represent some of the most colourful, intricate and finely-nuanced piano music in the repertoire. As Lepauw explains in the album booklet: "Each one of these preludes is a world unto itself and can easily stand alone. Listening to them individually or as part of the entire set is equally rewarding". George Lepauw was named Chicagoan of the Year in 2012 by the Chicago Tribune for his visionary artistic leadership in music, art and film festival programming, and has been recognised by the New York Times for his "singing tone" and by the Chicago Tribune as a "prodigious pianist". © Orchid Classics
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Debussy: Préludes

Alain Planès

Classical - Released December 14, 1999 | harmonia mundi

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Debussy: La Mer & Preludes

Claude Debussy

Classical - Released February 5, 2007 | Halle Concerts Society

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Debussy: 24 Preludes

Ilja Hurník

Classical - Released March 2, 2000 | Supraphon a.s.

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Debussy: Harmonie du soir, mélodies & songs

Alain Planès

Classical - Released August 24, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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This fine album centred on Debussy, entitled, Harmonie du soir (it is now the fashion to give classical releases titles of their own) presents a bouquet of melodies mostly dedicated to the nocturnes of which Debussy was so fond. It has a romantic opening, with the Nocturnes by John Field, and then by Chopin and Fauré. The programme is a delight for the ears , with a certain, rather precious, "je ne sais quoi" alongside the consummate articulation and diction offered by both Sophie Karthäuser and Stéphane Degout, two artists at the dazzling height of their maturity. The evocative, tender, liquid piano of both Alan Planès and Eugène Asti also provides an air of great expansiveness. The melodies emerge very subtly, helped along by performers who possess a deep knowledge of the unique world of French mélodie which Debussy renewed with the novelty of his harmonies and an often-demanding choice of lyrics, from Baudelaire or Mallarmé. This is yet another fantastic contribution from the harmonia mundi team to the year of Debussy. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Beau Soir - Violin Works by Fauré, Franck & Debussy

Kyung Wha Chung

Duets - Released March 23, 2018 | Warner Classics

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I present to you the violinist of the Chung family (actually, perhaps "dynasty" would be more precise). Born in 1948, Kyung-wha Chung's career started with a bang at the age of just ten. His youth proved no obstacle to starting his studies at the Juilliard school, but child-prodigy status carries with it a great risk: that of remaining a child. Chung dodged this particular error, and his adult career has blossomed on the world stage. Here he takes up the Franco-Belgian repertoire of Fauré and Franck: the former's First Sonata and the latter's sole Sonata are plainly the pillars of the album. Franck gave his to the world in 1886, but in fact Fauré's came first by a long way: it dates from 1876! And so the first of Fauré and the mature Franck confront each other on this record: both sharing the radiant tones of A major (on violin, the keys are much more clearly differentiated than they are on, say piano: some are much more striking, for technical reasons whose explanation can get a bit... technical); both are structured in four movements, but whereas one speaks of youth and fervour – in rather fashionable accents, too, perhaps – Franck's music shows a mellowing with age, broad, cyclical construction, and a precise way of giving each instrument an equal share weight in the discourse. Chung and pianist Kevin Kenner round off the programme with a few treats from the two composers, as well as a little Debussy and Elgar's Salut d'amour, which he wrote for his fiancée as an engagement present. © SM/Qobuz
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...Les sons et les parfums - Debussy meets Chopin

Javier Perianes

Classical - Released November 4, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Debussy: Preludes; Images; Estampes

Claudio Arrau

Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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