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Debussy: Jeux, Nocturnes, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Les Siècles

Symphonic Music - Released November 30, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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The originality of this recording (which presents works that are, in fact, rather common) comes from the orchestra Les Siècles playing on periodic instruments, in this case from the period in which Debussy wrote these masterpieces. This is particularly relevant for woodwinds and brass, whose mechanisms and sounds around 1900 were very different - more incisive perhaps, and undoubtedly more differentiated - which for music like Debussy's offers a real plus in the orchestral balance. Moreover, the number of strings remains reasonable, this way the woodwind is never swallowed up as it often is with large international orchestras. The listener will be able to hear this music as Debussy heard it, or at least how he would have liked to have heard it because in his time orchestras and conductors did not always have a clear understanding of his style or the infinite colours on his palette. © SM/Qobuz
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Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, Le martyre de Saint Sébastien & Nocturnes

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Classical - Released April 1, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha Classics and here invite the Maîtrise and Chœur de Radio France to join them in a Debussy programme. This recording couples La Damoiselle élue, a work described by the composer as a "little oratorio in a mystical and somewhat pagan vein", the Nocturnes for orchestra, composed between 1897 and 1899, and the Symphonic Fragments from Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien fashioned by André Caplet less than a year after the work’s first performance, and which ensured it would not be forgotten by posterity. © Alpha Classics
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Debussy: Nocturnes / Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2 & Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released September 1, 1970 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has long been considered as the most “French” of American orchestras. It was Pierre Monteux who helped give it its distinctive sound, later refined by Charles Munch, who was its principal conductor from 1949 to 1962. But let us not forget the contributions of conductors such as Serge Koussevitzky, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa and James Levine.Claudio Abbado began collaborating with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1958, when the young Italian won the Conducting Prize at the Koussevitzky competition in Tanglewood. Together with his very young American colleague Michael Tilson Thomas, Abbado often conducted the Boston Symphony before Ozawa’s appointment, when the health of its conductor William Steinberg began to deteriorate.Abbado dazzled the public with his unforgettable Debussy and Ravel, which he immediately recorded, as can be seen from the sessions of the 2nd of February 1970 (Ravel, Debussy) and the 8th of February 1971 (Scriabin) included in this album. With their diaphanous Clouds, sumptuous Festivals and deeply nostalgic Sirens, Debussy’s Nocturnes are magical under his direction; the Italian conductor has full control over his art, between a powerful understanding of the music and sensitivity of every moment. The magnetic Lever du jour of Daphnis et Chloé, in which all the birds of the world seem to be summoned, is a good representation of the refined Ravelian world that fit Abbado like a glove and whose strength and tenderness he knew how to express.In Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, Abbado seems more concerned with revealing the sound aesthetics and orchestral beauty of the Scriabinian universe (the Boston trumpets!) than with Scriabin's search for an impossible philosophical transcendence. But the sense of structure and formal fluidity are astonishing. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Debussy: Nocturnes; Première Rhapsodie; Jeux; La Mer

The Cleveland Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1995 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Debussy : La Mer, Nocturnes, Ibéria & Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Diapason n°569)

Orchestre National de France

Symphonic Music - Released October 25, 2012 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Debussy: Nocturnes

Halle

Classical - Released November 1, 2019 | Halle Concerts Society

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The Hallé Orchestra has played Debussy well for a long time, and the group's recent recordings under Sir Mark Elder have attracted critical notice. Those interested would do very well to start with this release, which joins the familiar Nocturnes for orchestra (perhaps a bit less familiar in the 1999 edition by Denis Herlin heard here) with some fascinating lesser-performed works. The latter group includes two unique later works, the highly evocative Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon, L. 150 (from a recently discovered piano work orchestrated by Colin Matthews), and the Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, L. 77. The Marche écossaise was commissioned, and if the idea of Debussy writing a Scottish march sounds odd, well, it's probably odder than it sounds: it sounds for all the world like a folk song setting, except then it doesn't. La Damoiselle elue, L. 62 is a very early piece, written by Debussy in connection with his Prix de Rome award. It's conventional, but the restless spirit that was soon to surface is easy to hear; it features strong, operatic performances by Anna Stéphany and Sophie Bevan. The Première Rapsodie, L. 116, is a difficult clarinet piece written for exams at the Paris Conservatory. As for the Nocturnes themselves, Elder has a precise yet dreamy way with this music, especially in the wordless chorus of Sirènes that rewards multiple hearings.© TiVo
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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, 3 Nocturnes

Claudio Abbado

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Debussy: Nocturnes – Duruflé: Requiem

Robin Ticciati

Classical - Released September 13, 2019 | Linn Records

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Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Orchestre de Paris

Classical - Released January 1, 1993 | Decca Music Group Ltd.