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 | Sergiu Celibidache conducts Ravel And Debussy
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie during the Cologne
Music Triennale, 13-14 May 1994 "The performance of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune…is the nearest to musical Zen we are ever likely to get. Beautifully filmed at a concert in Cologne in 1994, it is a never-to-be-surpassed memento of the legendary Romanian conductor Celibidache (1912-96), in repertoire that demonstrated his unrivalled ear for timbre and colour. The Prélude seems to float outside time and space - the Munich Philharmonic reward Celi with the most ravishing display - and a scarcely less magical Ravel Rhapsodie espagnole resonates between precision, subtlety and refinement…" Financial Times | 
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 | Debussy - Orchestral Works Volume 1
Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl Debussy was one of the most important and influential composers of the early twentieth century. This recording features two of Debussy’s most harmonically innovative and imaginatively orchestrated works. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) evokes a pagan world, as the faun of the title takes his ease in the afternoon shade on a summer day. The three symphonic sketches that constitute La mer (The Sea), inspired partly by Katsushika Hokusai’s famous colour woodcut The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, offer subtly nuanced evocations of the sea from dawn to midday, of the waves and of the dialogue of wind and sea. “The Prélude à l'Après-Midi opens with a beautifully shaped flute solo, but then becomes too generalised, without enough stabs of drama to lift its general mood of indolence, while La Mer motors along rather complacently and Jeux totally lacks the quicksilver wit and colouristic imagination that makes it one of the most elusive and potent of Debussy's late works. Whether it's more obvious delight in the luxuriance of the textures, or a sharper analytical insight into the way in which the pieces are constructed, it needs more character; what we get instead is elegant, undemanding background music.” The Guardian, 30th May 2008 ** “Debussy ushered in the modern age with breezy whole-tone scales and mere impressions of keys, which the musicians under Märkl paint with delicious colour. Märkl moves the phrases of La Mer like plump, urgent waves, or smoothes them like the deceptive calm ready to surge at any moment. A sense of lurking danger might have been more apparent, however. The Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune paints beautifully the dancing sunlight but lacks that haunting hollowness in the flute that evokes the pagan past. Jeux is both playful and as tense as a tennis racket. But Children's Corner is a little overpowering for the nursery, the jauntiness now rather grotesque in expanded form.” The Times, 24th May 2008 *** |
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 | Tour De France
Quintessenz is the name of this flute ensemble hailing from Leipzig. On this, their first recording, they play
such classic and well known pieces as Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” and Bizet’s “Children’s
Games”. Together with music by Debussy and Ravel. Not only is the playing world class but the ensemble
performs the music in their own arrangements. A unique and talented group of musicians. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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 | Debussy - Orchestral Music
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink Another master colourist working with one of the great orchestras - silky, sensuous and exquisitely recorded - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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 | Debussy - Chamber & Vocal Works
Philippe Bernold, Gérard Caussé, Isabelle Moretti, Ariane Jacob & Irène Jacob | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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 | Mravinsky Collection 2
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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