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Intégrale de la musique pour piano

Théodore Paraskivesco

Classical - Released June 4, 2012 | Indésens

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Debussy: Préludes, Livres 1 & 2

Vestard Shimkus

Classical - Released March 31, 2023 | ARTALINNA

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Debussy: Préludes du 2e Livre, La Mer (transc. Debussy)

Alexander Melnikov

Classical - Released June 29, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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Released as one of nine new albums dedicated to Debussy by harmonia mundi to mark the centenary of the French composer's birth, this volume offers the Second Book of the Preludes played by Alexander Melnikov on an Erard piano. The world of Debussyan piano relied so heavily on timbre that pianists and editors alike often prefer one or another make so as to get a grip on the specificities of the music. Alexander Melnikov is one of those rare Russian artists to take an interest in ancient instruments. This student of Sviatoslav Richter was quickly captivated by this kind of work, working with Andreas Staier and Alexey Lubimov and playing with specialised ensembles like the Concerto Köln or the Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik. His performance of the Preludes by Debussy at London's Wigmore Hall was particularly well received by critics who described the Russian pianist as a "sorcerer" who is highlighting "ravishing", "violent", "terrifying" music. An iridescent orchestral masterpiece, La Mer is difficult to boil down to a four-handed piano piece, and Debussy disowned his transcription, leaving it to André Caplet to prepare another one for two four-handed pianos. Alexandre Melnikov and Olga Pashchenko have taken up the challenge to prove that the auteur's transcription is not at all "unplayable". © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Debussy: Préludes (Book 2)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

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

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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.

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, 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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