Debussy: Valse romantique (L. 71)

“(Lerner's)...sense of color and poetry washed the music with every possible evocative tinge, and the collection, ending appropriately with “Feux d'artifice”, offered Debussy at his most imaginative, played with stunning insight and control.” -Byron Belt, Newhouse Newspapers

No gently meandering Debussy for French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in his second complete works instalment. Structure and clarity are, if not all, then at least to the forefront here, and the composer gains. In a way, by making the textures so clear, Bavouzet reveals (to an extent) how the magician does his tricks – and it just leaves you admiring Debussy all the more. - Gramophone Magazine

“If anything, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet surpasses the high standards he set in his previous Debussy release… with this second instalment. …he focuses upon clarity of textures, rhythmic precision, well differentiated articulation, plus scrupulous balances between the hands and within chords.” Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008

"Thiollier plays it beautifully...it was a real treat to hear this warm, sweet piano tone emerge out of complete silence" - American Record Guide