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French Duets - Fauré: Dolly Suite; Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc etc.
Steven Osborne
Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Hyperion
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Debussy: Piano Duets
Louis Lortie
Classical - Released September 9, 2022 | Chandos
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Regular duet and two-piano partners, Hélène Mercier and Louis Lortie have returned to the studio for this all-Debussy programme. The present album features duets written by the composer himself – such as the Petite suite, the Six épigraphes antiques, and the Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, as well as a number of arrangements of his solo piano pieces (Première Arabesque, La Fille aux cheveux de lin, Ballade slave). The album ends with André Caplet’s monumental arrangement of Debussy’s best-known orchestral work, La Mer. Stripping the work of its orchestral colours, this two-piano version allows the listener to appreciate more easily Debussy’s ground-breaking harmonic innovation. The album was recorded in the concert hall at Snape Maltings, in Suffolk, using a pair of Bösendorfer 280 VC grand pianos. © Chandos
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Debussy : Images (oubliées), Six Epigraphes antiques, Pièces pour piano
Claude Debussy
Classical - Released April 1, 2011 | Saphir Productions
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Armin Jordan conducts Debussy, Roussel & Chausson (Live)
Felicity Lott
Classical - Released September 4, 2020 | audite Musikproduktion
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The prestigious Lucerne Festival, which has seen, and still today showcases, the very best conductors, soloists and orchestras on the planet, continues to publish its exceptional archives. This new offering displays the sumptuous return of Armin Jordan who led the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande between 1985 and 1997 and gave a second “golden age” to the Genovese ensemble after the fruitful years of Ansermet (1918-1967).With his Germanic and Latin cultural heritage, Armin Jordan took pleasure in gracing works with a generous and tormented lyricism. His only two appearances at the podium of the ancient Kunsthaus at the festival of his birth town are brought together here with his superb recordings created in 1988 and 1994. Here we find his stunning sense of colour and unique mix of fluidity, transparence and vigour which he made his own.After Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun with its hazy poeticism, we discover the Second Suite of Bacchus and Arriadne by Albert Roussel led by a beating drum with a touring OSR at the top of its game. The strength of this interpretation perfectly fills a gap as Jordan had never recorded this flamboyant work in studio. Such is not the case with Poème de l’amour et de la mer which was recorded in Monte-Carlo for Erato with Jessye Norman.In this 1994 Lucerne concert, he directed his dear companion Felicity Lott. While the voice of this English cantata singer doesn’t have the amber-scented and sensual colour of her American colleague, she nevertheless possesses a timbre of perfect harmony with the style and colour of the Chausson conductor. Finally, one can admire Ansermet’s beautiful orchestration recorded in 1932 with Claude Debussy’s Six Épigraphes Antiques where he displayed the most intricate of details as much as Jordan perfectly translates its flourishes and subtleties. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Debussy, Stravinsky : Piano à quatre mains
Geister Duo
Chamber Music - Released April 7, 2023 | Mirare
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Just over a year after releasing their first CD for Mirare (which we proudly awarded a Qobuzissime!), the Geister Duo is back to present us with its little brother: an album dedicated to the modernisms of the 1900s and two of its most illustrious representatives, Debussy and Stravinsky. Musically, the end of the 20th century was marred by departures and farewells, particularly to the late Romantics and post-Wagnerism. The journey towards new musical horizons, tonalities and modern forms had begun. It was during this time that a trio of talented composers joined forces. Debussy published his Six Epigraphes antiques in 1915, but their beginnings date back to 1900 when his close friend Pierre Louÿs commissioned him to write music for his Chansons de Bilitis. The six titles describe, in a poetic and ethereal fashion, a musical antiquity similar to that of Pelléas and Mélisande. Maurice Ravel was in the audience during the first performance of Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in 1894. This audience, including a captivated young Ravel, were left with nothing but high praise for Debussy. Ravel made it his duty to create a transcription that would perfectly “orchestrate” the piano four hands. Though Stravinsky’s Petrushka was received with slightly more criticism, it still ensured the composer’s international success. A far cry from late Romanticism, the emphasis here is on clear forms, sharp edges and diatonic pronunciation. The three works are uniquely presented in their chamber music version for piano. With only their four hands, David Salmon and Manuel Viellard manage to recreate an entire orchestra, transporting the listener to a musical era bursting with opportunity. The aural symbiosis of the two pianists seems even more refined than in their last recording and demonstrates that the duo still have a bright future ahead of them. © Lena Germann/ Qobuz
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Debussy: La boîte à joujoux, 6 Épigraphes antiques & Sarabande (Orch. Caplet, Ansermet & Ravel)
Armin Jordan
Classical - Released February 12, 2021 | Warner Classics
Armin Jordan, who passed away in 2006, was an atypical conductor and an extraordinary personality. With a Swiss-German father and a Genevan mother, he straddled two cultures and two languages, bringing clarity to the music of Wagner, which he adored, and endowing French music with mystery and sometimes even introspection. He was a jovial, generous, unpredictable man, adored by orchestral musicians, which is quite rare for a conductor, because he was never aloof or self-satisfied.Michel Garcin, the director of Erato Records, adored this singular man whom he trusted to such an extent that he commissioned him to record a voluminous discography, the quality of which is still hailed fifteen years after the Swiss conductor's death. He has recorded with several orchestras, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of course, of which he was musical director from 1985 to 1997, but also with the two orchestras of Radio France, that of Monte Carlo and, as here, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, which is also the orchestra of the Basel Opera, of which Jordan was the adored director.Curiously, it is a German orchestra that pays indirect tribute to Ernest Ansermet, whose 1932 orchestration of Debussy's work Jordan interprets here with great finesse. Ansermet had met Debussy on several occasions and knew that the composer intended Epigraphes antiques for the orchestra. But his death prevented him from carrying this project through to the end. The tribute continues with a recording of La Boîte à joujoux, the children's ballet that Ansermet recorded and whose rehearsal, recorded without his knowledge, remains a poetic monument to his work. Ansermet's influence was considerable, particularly for the two great later figures of Swiss conducting, Charles Dutoit and Armin Jordan, who both worked with him. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Debussy: La mer, Ibéria, Images & 6 Épigraphes antiques
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Classical - Released November 1, 2018 | PentaTone
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Debussy: Petite suite, Danses pour harpe et orchestre & Épigraphes antiques
Jean-François Paillard
Classical - Released January 1, 1969 | Warner Classics
Jean-François Paillard and his orchestra were the key to the success of Erato Records, representing a certain idea of French music from the 1950s to the 1970s. This student of Igor Markevitch quickly stood out by forming the orchestra bearing his name and by dedicating himself to a then little-known branch of French music from Lully to Debussy. His rigidity with regard to the rise of historically informed baroque music (period instruments, tuning fork, playing mode) rendered his approach obsolete, even though it opened the door to this revival, at least as far as the considered repertoire is concerned. Among Jean-François Paillard’s many recordings, this one holds a special place because it represents one of his very rare and cautious forays into the repertoire written at the beginning of the twentieth century.Recorded in 1970, this is a very smooth and lively version of the Petite Suite written by a young Debussy still immersed in his stays in Russia with Madame von Meck, Tchaikovsky's benefactress, in a diaphanous orchestration by Henri Büsser.This enjoyment was increased tenfold by a reunion with the great harpist Lily Laskine playing one of her favourite works, the Danses pour harpe et orchestre à cordes that Debussy composed at the request of Pleyel as a display of its instruments. As for Épigraphes antiques, this is one of Debussy’s last works, composed in 1914 for piano four hands, with the idea of a future orchestration. It was the conductor Ernest Ansermet who fulfilled this wish in 1932 with his delicate orchestration, followed forty years later by this version for strings alone, due to the talent of the transcriber and performer Jean-François Paillard. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Debussy: Petite suite, En blanc et noir, Lindaraja, Épigraphes antiques, Symphonie & Marche écossaise
Jean-Philippe Collard
Classical - Released January 27, 2023 | Warner Classics
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