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Debussy: Études & Pour le piano

Steven Osborne

Solo Piano - Released November 3, 2023 | Hyperion

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Ravel, Debussy & Fauré: Piano Works

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released April 28, 2014 | Warner Classics

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Debussy: Etudes, Martyre de saint Sébastien

Philippe Bianconi

Classical - Released September 25, 2020 | La Dolce Volta

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According to Philippe Bianconi, Claude Debussy’s twelve Études are more compositional studies than studies and represent the culmination and pinnacle of his artistry. The French pianist has long shied away from the extreme difficulty in executing these pieces, but with this latest offering he completes his recordings of these piano works by Debussy. In addition to this most beautiful interpretation of the Études, Philippe Bianconi has chosen to include some contemporary pieces so as to give a stylistic coherence to his project presenting a late Debussy, wearied by war, pessimism and cancer which ultimately led to his death at the age of 56. Debussy’s faithful friend, André Caplet orchestrated several of his works and realised a pianistic version for orchestra including these extracts of the Martyre de Saint-Sébastien composed for the dancer Ida Rubinstein on a text by Gabriele d’Annunzio. The piano arrangement still reinforces the austerity found within the original work and includes the passages Debussy ignored in his symphonic fragments. Written in homage to Chopin who Debussy revered, the Études and their complex harmonies open the door to a music of the future. Philippe Bianconi’s light touch is marvellous in the same way as his work on textures and the difficult polyphony in the striking miniatures. Such technique enables him to brave every nuance and endlessly vary colour and atmosphere. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Madoka Fukami: Claude Debussy et Maurice Ravel

Madoka Fukami

Classical - Released January 16, 2019 | Passavant Music