Debussy: Études pour piano (6) Book 1

This release brings together some of the most sublime of Debussy’s solo piano music. Recorded live at the Music Festival in Reims in July 2003, these are heart felt and highly sensitive performances from pianist Georges Pludemacher. Pludermacher has played with all the major European Orchestras and under the batons of, amongst others, Georg Solti, Christophe von Dohnannyi and Pierre Boulez.

2012 marks the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy's birth. On this occasion, Universal Classics is proud to re-release, on the Decca label, the complete piano works recorded by Philippe Cassard between 1989 and 1993. The four volumes of which this cycle consists are now being brought together for the first time as an attractive box set at an equally attractive price, with the addition of two pieces unpublished at the time of the initial recording and recorded in June 2011: 'Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon' and 'Pour le Vêtement du blessé'.

A Decca Classics unlimited edition, including Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s acclaimed recordings of the solo piano music, as well as Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky’s Deutsche Grammophon recordings of the works for two pianos and for piano duet.