Claude Achille Debussy

(1862-1918)

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Bach, J S:

Flute Sonata in G minor, BWV1020

Bennett, R R:

Winter Music

Sonatina

Bozza:

Trois Impressions

Clarke, I:

Orange Dawn

'maya'

Debussy:

Syrinx for solo flute

Donjon:

Offertoire

Gaubert:

Fantasie

Karg-Elert:

Flute Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 140: Appassionata

Sigurbjörnsson, T:

Tvíteymi

Varèse:

Densité 21.5

Villa-Lobos:

Chôros No. 2 for flute & clarinet


Averil Williams (flute), with Ingunn Hildur Hauksdóttir (piano), Michael Higgins (piano), Einar Jóhannesson (clarinet), Ian Clarke (piano)

Fine Arts Music - FAM101

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Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 5

Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 5


Debussy:

La Boite A Joujoux

orch. Claude Debussy and André Caplet

6 Epigraphes antiques

orch. Ernest Ansermet

Estampe No. 1 - Pagodes

orch. André Caplet

Estampe No. 2 - La soirée dans Grenade

orch. P-H Büsser

L'isle joyeuse

orch. Bernardino Molinari

Le triomphe de Bacchus

orch. & arr. Marius-François Gaillard


Volume 5 of Naxos’s acclaimed series of Debussy’s orchestral music presents a potpourri of works that were either left incomplete by the composer or were orchestrated by others who greatly admired his music.

The rarely-heard children’s ballet The Toy Box, dedicated to Debussy’s daughter Emma-Claude but not premièred until after the composer’s death, recalls the innocent world of his popular Children’s Corner suite.

Based on Pierre Louÿs’ Chansons de Bilitis, Debussy’s Six épigraphes antiques evoke poetic scenes from the ancient world, as does the sole surviving portion of The Triumph of Bacchus.

“First of all, a word of warning. Of the 73 minutes on this Debussy disc, just about 70 are of orchestrations by other people...In all these versions, Jun Märkl conducts with spirit and finesse.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 ****

“The Lyon players create the strange impression of floating on air as points of sound emerge from the near-distance with ear-tweaking lucidity...The engineering balances detail and atmosphere to glowing perfection...Märkl's revelatory Debussy series is up there...as one of the most iridescent musical jewels in Naxos's crown.” Classic FM Magazine, April 2011 *****

“[La boite a joujoux] is performed with the sensitivity, warmth of character, fluency and discerning treatment of instrumental timbre that have been the hallmarks of the Lyon orchestra's playing and Jun Markl's conducting on all four of their previous Debussy discs” Gramophone Magazine, July 2011

Naxos Jun Märkl Debussy Orchestral Works - 8572568

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Debussy: La Mer, Images, Nocturnes & Jeux

Debussy: La Mer, Images, Nocturnes & Jeux


Debussy:

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

La Mer

Images for orchestra

Children's Corner

orch. Andre Caplet

Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61

Trois Nocturnes

Jeux - Poème dansé


Martine Laure (piano)

Orchestre National de l’ORTF & Berliner Philharmoniker, Andre Previn & Carlo Maria Giulini

When Claude Debussy (1862-1918) composed his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in 1894, nothing quite like it had been heard before. At the time it totally revolutionised music and set a new path for music in the century to come.

It was during 1905 that Debussy spent some months residing in Eastbourne in England where he completed one of his greatest works – La Mer (The Sea). He had taken refuge in England with his pregnant mistress, Emma Bardac, to escape the scandal caused by the attempted suicide of his then wife. Shortly after returning to Paris, Bardac gave birth to Debussy's only child, Claude-Emma, to whom he dedicated the piano original of his Children's Corner.

The Ballet score Jeux was Debussy's last orchestral work, being written in 1912 for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes with choreography by Nijinsky. It is a complex piece, made up of many small musical cells and changes of tempo.

EMI 20th Century Classics - 9072162

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French Music for clarinet and piano

French Music for clarinet and piano


Debussy:

Petite Pièce pour Clarinette et Piano

Rhapsody for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116 'Première rapsodie'

Françaix:

Tema con variazioni for clarinet & piano

Gaubert:

Fantasie

Honegger:

Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 42

Milhaud:

Scaramouche, suite for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), Op. 165d

Pierné, G:

Canzonetta, Op. 19

Poulenc:

Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184

Saint-Saëns:

Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167


Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord - HMA1951596

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Franck, Debussy & Demus: Violin Sonatas

Franck, Debussy & Demus: Violin Sonatas


Debussy:

Violin Sonata

Demus:

Sonate Sylvestre for violin and piano, Op. 48

dedicated to Thomas Albertus Irnberger

Franck, C:

Violin Sonata in A major


Thomas Albertus Irnberger (violin) & Jörg Demus (piano)

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Gramola - GRAM98895

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Debussy & Ibert: Orchestral Works

Debussy & Ibert: Orchestral Works


Debussy:

La Mer

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Trois Nocturnes: Nuages et Fêtes

Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61

Ibert:

Escales


Sony Originals - 88697689542

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel, Debussy & Massenet

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel, Debussy & Massenet


Debussy:

Fantasie for piano and orchestra

Massenet:

Valse folle

Toccata

Papillons blancs

Papillons noirs

Eau courante

Eau dormante

Ravel:

Piano Concerto in G major

Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)


The exclusive Chandos artist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a master of this repertoire. This is his second concerto recording for the label, after his survey of the complete piano concertos by Bartók (CHAN10610) which was released in September to high acclaim and voted ‘Orchestral Choice of the Month’ by the magazine BBC Music. Bavouzet’s complete recording of the piano music by Debussy also scooped awards from BBC Music and Gramophone, which wrote: ‘This could well be the finest and most challenging of all Debussy piano cycles.’ On this new release, Bavouzet is accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yan Pascal Tortelier, a conductor steeped in the French tradition and utterly at home in this repertoire. The result is a totally idiomatic performance of these French masterpieces for piano and orchestra.

Ravel’s light and brilliant Piano Concerto in G major is the intriguing result of a merging of classical models with the idioms and harmonies found in the popular jazz music of his day. At the time of composing this concerto, Ravel had just returned from his travels in the USA and the work is heavily influenced by the jazz music that he encountered there. However, in the second movement Mozart takes precedence, the piano’s theme closely modelled on the slow movement of his Clarinet Quintet; and Saint-Saëns’s sparkling semi-quavers fill the finale. The first performance of this work, given by Marguerite Long in Paris, was a great success, as was the European tour that followed. Another central piece is Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. The work was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm during the First World War. Although at first Wittgenstein did not take to its jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies, he grew to like the piece. Speaking of the Concerto, Ravel said that he had been determined to make it sound ‘no thinner’ than one for both hands and noted that in the middle of the piece ‘innumerable rhythmic patterns are introduced which become increasingly compact’ and that ‘this pulsation increases in intensity and frequency’ before the various elements ‘contend with one another until they are brusquely interrupted by a brutal conclusion’.

Also featured on this disc is Debussy’s Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra. Debussy was a highly self-critical composer and disowned or withdrew several of his early works; this piece was one of them. It was composed in 1889 – 90, and its premiere was scheduled, under Vincent d’Indy, almost as soon as the score was completed, but withdrawn by Debussy just as it was being put into rehearsal. The first performance did not take place until after Debussy’s death in 1918. Although the Fantaisie is the lone piano concerto by a composer regarded as one of the greatest among those who wrote for the piano, it remains one of Debussy's least frequently performed works even now. The work shows the influences of Fauré and Franck, and the piano does not figure as a solo instrument in the conventional concerto sense but rather as an equal partner with the orchestra, although the conventional three movements are still present.

Completing the disc in a unique manner are six pieces for solo piano by Massenet. Most famous for his operas and suites for orchestra, Massenet wrote a quantity of very charming piano pieces, of which Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has selected some of the best. The music is typical of its composer – highly tuneful, richly textured, and utterly compelling – and conjures an atmosphere which only a Frenchman could achieve.

“As he did in his performance of the Concerto for the Left Hand at the Proms in the summer, Bavouzet undervalues its growling intensity...He's much more at home in the glitter of the G major concerto, with his elegant, delicately tinted playing and Tortelier's deft accompaniments” The Guardian, 28th October 2010 ***

“It is the particular mix that makes this disc so appealing...Albeit that the Fantaisie is an early work that Debussy himself seems to have shunned, this performance relishes its colour and élan.” The Telegraph, 5th November 2010 ****

“The ebullient French pianist Bavouzet scales the heights in this splendid and generous CD with the BBC Symphony Orchestra...The G major bounces along, though, with reflective asides not forgotten. In the Concerto for Left Hand, Bavouzet winningly balances the grandiose and jazzy.” The Times, 13th November 2010 ****

“the interpretations catch the ear with their blend of subtle phrasing, polish and unanimous zest...A group of charming solo piano miniatures by Massenet complements and at times connects with the styles of Debussy and Ravel, and Bavouzet plays them beautifully.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2010

“[Bavouzet] turns in a performance of the Fantaisie that illuminates this uneven yet magical work like no other. As to the Ravel concertos, I have no hesitation in saying these are the greatest performances I have ever heard. The G major is a sharp as a razor, achingly lyrical when required and, above all, fun...The 'Left Hand', helped by Tortelier's incisive conducting is simply awe-inspiring.” Classic FM Magazine, January 2011 *****

“Bavouzet’s G major concerto is the best since Michelangeli’s 50 years ago: it has style, verve, poetry and balance...they pull off a wonderfully propulsive Left Hand Concerto, full of pizzazz, spontaneity and arresting insights.” Financial Times, 14th January 2011 ****

“Bavouzet's accounts of the two Ravel Piano Concertos are very special, quite wonderfully atmospheric, indeed magical; the delicacy and finesse of the pianism are dazzling...This is simply one of the finest records of French piano music in the catalogue.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

GGramophone Awards 2011

Best of Category - Concerto

BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012

Orchestral Award Winner

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Chandos - CHSA5084

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Pierre Monteux with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Pierre Monteux with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

10 stereo concerts from the 1958 & 1959 Seasons


Beethoven:

Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133

orch.Weingartner; 10th January 1958

The Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Op. 43

Recorded 9th August 1958

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Recorded 9th August 1958

Berl Senofsky (violin)

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

Recorded 9th August 1958

Fidelio Overture Op. 72c

Recorded 8th August 1959

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Recorded 8th August 1959

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Recorded 8th August 1959

Brahms:

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

10th January 1958

Leonid Kogan (violin)

Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

20th July 1958

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Recorded 20th July 1958

Leon Fleisher (piano)

Tragic Overture, Op. 81

Recorded 19th July 1959

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Recorded 24th July 1959

Isaac Stern (violin)

Chorale Preludes (11), Op. 122

arr. Thomson; recorded 24th July 1959

Debussy:

Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien - Fragments symphoniques

10th January 1958

Trois Nocturnes

Recorded 25th July 1958

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Recorded 19th July 1959

Glinka:

Ruslan & Lyudmila Overture

Recorded 25th July 1958

Hindemith:

Nobilissima Visione

Recorded 19th July 1959

Indy:

Symphony on a French Mountain Song Op. 25

Recorded 19th July 1959

Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)

Mendelssohn:

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'

Recorded 1st August 1959

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Recorded 1st August 1959

Rudolf Serkin (piano)

Milhaud:

Les Eumenides: Prelude to Act 3

Recorded 25th July 1958

Ravel:

La Valse

25th July 1958

Respighi:

Passacaglia in do minore di Giovanni Sebastiano Bach

Recorded 24th July 1959

Rimsky Korsakov:

Le Coq d'Or: Introduction & Cortège de noces

Recorded 19th July 1959

Schumann:

Manfred Overture, Op. 115

Recorded 1st August 1959

Introduction & Allegro appassionato in G major, Op. 92

Recorded 1st August 1959

Rudolf Serkin (piano)

Strauss, R:

Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

10th January 1958

Don Juan, Op. 20

24th July 1959

Don Quixote, Op. 35

Recorded 23rd January 1959

Samuel Mayes (cello), Joseph de Pasquale (viola)

Stravinsky:

Three Movements from Petrushka

Recorded 20th July 1958

Tchaikovsky:

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Recorded 25th July 1958

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Recorded 19th July 1959

Wagner:

Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde): orchestral version

1st August 1959

Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1

Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (from Parsifal)

Margaret Harshaw (soprano)

Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1

Einsam in trüben Tagen (from Lohengrin)

Margaret Harshaw (soprano)

Rienzi Overture

Der fliegende Holländer: Overture

Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff im Meere an 'Senta's Ballad' (from Der fliegende Holländer)

Margaret Harshaw (soprano)

Siegfried: Waldweben

Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser)

Margaret Harshaw (soprano)

Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries

Recorded 3rd August 1958


These are never-before-released Monteux live performances in state of the art digital restorations. The set includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Glinka, Hindemith, Mendelssohn, Milhaud, Schumann, R. Strauss of which there are no studio recordings with Monteux. Soloists include Stern and Serkin.

West Hill Radio Archive - WHRA6034

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Three French Piano Trios

Three French Piano Trios


Debussy:

Piano Trio in G major

Fauré:

Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120

Ravel:

Piano Trio in A minor


“A delightful grouping of French trios from the Gramophone Award-winning Florestans, who breathe fresh life into these works … top of my list” Gramophone Magazine

“Such flair proves The Florestan Trio, if proof is needed, to be among the finest chamber ensembles of the present day. Outstandingly imaginative performances, finely recorded” Classic CD

Hyperion 30th Anniversary - CDA30029

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Debussy - Complete Piano Works Volume 4

Debussy - Complete Piano Works Volume 4


Debussy:

Études pour piano (12) (complete)


Pascal Rogé (piano)

Pascal Rogé has established a reputation as the world’s foremost interpreter of the French piano repertoire.

His recordings of the music of Erik Satie are unsurpassed after years in the catalogue, and his series for ONYX continues with a 4th volume featuring the 12 Études, among the composer’s masterpieces.

Gramophone said of Rogé’s recording of the Preludes: ‘this disc of the complete Debussy Preludes has all his improvisatory warmth and charm, qualities that can take you to the very heart of the composer’s evanescent world’.

“Rogé has little time for the common perception of Debussy as an "impressionist" composer, all pastel shades and dewy outlines. His playing is bold, muscular when it needs to be, and above all concerned at all times with formal and textural clarity...he is a sure guide to the musical worlds the Études inhabit, and to the moments when they transcend their technical function” The Guardian, 30th September 2010 ***

“As with the other discs in this complete Debussy survey, Rogé draws some lovely sounds from the piano” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 **

“Rogé brings to every piece a refined sensibility, his pacing, colouring and voicing beautifully judged.” Sunday Times, 31st October 2010 ****

“this release is packed with remarkable insights that will entrance connoisseurs of the Études and win them many new admirers.” Graham Rogers, bbc.co.uk, 2nd November 2010

Onyx Debussy Piano Works - ONYX4056

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