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Debussy: La mer & Orchestral Works (Studio Masters Edition )

Sir Simon Rattle

Classical - Released August 1, 2005 | Warner Classics

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Debussy : Préludes - Suite bergamasque - Pour le piano

Dino Ciani

Classical - Released January 1, 1997 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Debussy: Préludes II

Maurizio Pollini

Classical - Released February 16, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Why yes indeed, this is a very recent recording of Debussy by Maurizio Pollini (with his own son Daniele at his side for En blanc et en noir), made in late 2016 in Munich's sumptuous Herkulesaal. In it, the old lion of the piano unfurls for us the sumptuous and enigmatic musical tapestry of the Second Book of Debussy's Preludes, finished in 1912: a superlatively delicate pattern, more sketched and suggested than really followed, the pianist being enjoined not to "overdo it". Maurizio Pollini, 74 when the recording was made, can measure his performance out perfectly, and knows how to give the impression that the music is being written and improvised as he plays. And the album closes with En blanc et en noir for two pianos, of which Debussy wrote in 1915: "I have suffered greatly from the long drought imposed upon my brain by the war"; after months of silence, and his work editing Chopin, he entered a period of fevered creativity which continued with the two Books of the Études and the final sonatas. First entitled "Caprices en blanc et noir", the three pieces of En blanc et noir refer neatly to the instrument's keys and, as Debussy writes in 1916, "they aim to draw their colour, their emotion, from the simple piano, like Velasquez's greys". Grey, the fruit of the meeting of black and white... © SM/Qobuz
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Debussy: Piano Works

Walter Gieseking

Classical - Released October 10, 1996 | Warner Classics

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Debussy: Images & Préludes, Book 2

Marc-André Hamelin

Classical - Released November 2, 2014 | Hyperion

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Debussy: Préludes, Livres 1 & 2

Vestard Shimkus

Classical - Released March 31, 2023 | ARTALINNA

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Debussy: Préludes (Book 2)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2

Alessandra Ammara

Classical - Released August 28, 2020 | Piano Classics

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The second volume of a Debussy series attracting critical superlatives and comparisons with the likes of Cortot and Gieseking. In 2016 Alessandra Ammara won high praise for an album of Mendelssohn duets with her husband Roberto Prosseda. The following year her Piano Classics debut of Debussy inspired no less glowing reviews. The sequel elegantly completes her recordings of the Préludes and Images with their second volumes, coupled with the more innocent pleasures of the Suite bergamasque. Thus the album spans Debussy’s first and punultimate published piano cycles, for while the Suite appeared in print only in 1905, it was composed back in 1890. In their titles, three of the four movements – a Prelude, Minuet and Passepied – invoke the formal elegance of a Baroque dance suite, but the elusive character and freedom of the music owes more to the poetry of Verlaine, who used the archaic ‘bergamasque’ term in his poem Clair de lune, which as the suite’s third movement became Debussy’s single greatest hit. In both the Images and Préludes, Debussy invested their second volumes (composed in 1907 and 1912-13 respectively) with darker, gloomier tone-colours and higher contrasts with wild outbursts and even manic humour. The portraits of individual characters and landscapes are more sharply drawn, more charged with private intensity. They make accordingly greater demands upon the interpreter, nowhere more so than in the dark, wild magic of the Feux d’artifice which close out the Préludes. The three Images in Book 2 are linked by their association with the Debussy’s friend Louis Laloy, and by extension with their mutual fascination with China and the alien world of East-Asian culture. The bells in Cloches à travers les feuilles ring from the church in Laloy’s home-town; the title of Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut was proposed by Laloy himself, and the goldfish – Poissons d’or of the triptych’s final panel – swim and shimmer through much Chinese lacquer artwork. © Piano Classics
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Debussy: 24 Preludes

Ilja Hurník

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

Debussy: Préludes Book II, Children's Corner, L'Isle Joyeuse

Vanessa Benelli Mosell

Classical - Released November 12, 2021 | Universal Music Italia srL.

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Debussy: Préludes, Berceuse héroïque & Estampes

Walter Gieseking

Classical - Released November 25, 2022 | Warner Classics

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Debussy: Préludes, Estampes & Reflets dans l'eau

Youri Egorov

Classical - Released March 18, 2022 | Warner Classics

Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2 (Orch. P. Breiner)

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Classical - Released August 27, 2012 | Naxos

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Préludes de Claude Debussy (arrangés pour orchestre)

Claude Debussy

Classical - Released July 1, 2010 | Halle Concerts Society

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Musical literalists may not be pleased with Colin Matthews' free orchestral arrangements of the 24 movements of Debussy's two books of Préludes pour le piano; this is certainly not the equivalent of Ravel's faithful orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Fans of impressionist orchestral music and some fans of the piano originals, though, may well experience a thrill, as if a lost Debussy orchestral piece had been rediscovered. Matthews has a consummate, almost uncanny understanding of Debussy's orchestrational style, and the occasional sonorities that betray the work's modern provenance clearly sound like intentional artistic decisions and not miscalculations. Debussy was a composer whose language and orchestration were always evolving, and it requires no stretch whatsoever to imagine that these orchestrations could have been his own. Listeners who know the piano preludes will be fascinated to hear the ways in which Matthews has reimagined them, sometimes even adding material, extending their length, and altering note values to make the music fit the orchestral idiom with complete naturalness. Matthews reorders the preludes, mixing the two books, opening with Brouillards, the first prelude from the second book and ending the set with a gorgeous, grand, radiant version of La cathédrale engloutie. He also adds an original postlude, titled Monsieur Croche (the composer's pen name as a music critic), which he describes as being closer to Debussy's style than he had "intended or expected." The commissioners of the arrangement, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra, perform it with luminous transparency and idiomatic sensitivity to roots in Impressionism. The sound is clean, clear, and present. Highly recommended. © TiVo

Debussy Integrale Inachevée

Samson François

Classical - Released October 2, 1995 | Warner Classics

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