|
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (24, complete) [arr orchestra] Lyon National Orchestra, Jun Markl [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "The impression is of a job professionally done and of performances that do what they have to do and do it well. They do not, however, extinguish the temptation to go back and relish Debussy's piano originals." (Gramophone) |
|
BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FRANCK / HAYDN / PROKOFIEV / SCHUMANN / etc
Martha Argerich: The Complete Sony Recordings Martha Argerich (piano) with James Galway (flute), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Berlin Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta [ Sony Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Jul/2016 ] Martha Argerich - The Complete Sony Classical Recordings is a 5 CD original jackets collection containing 2 CDs remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24bit/96 kHz technology. Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine pianist,... |
|
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Complete Piano Music Martin Jones (piano) [ Nimbus / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "His Debussy album is so very 'complete' that it takes up 5 CD's- because he includes piano versions of a lot of music that doesn't figure in other people's collections." (CD Review) |
|
DEBUSSY
Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (24, complete) Martino Tirimo (piano) [ Alto / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] |
|
DEBUSSY
Complete Music for Piano Duo [3 CD set] Massimiliano Damerini, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] The only really complete edition of Debussy's output for piano duo! Recorded in 2012, Carrara, Italy. |
|
BIZET / DEBUSSY
Bizet arr Otten: Car Men / La Cathédrale engloutie / Silent Cries (complete dance works rec 1975 - 2006) BLU-RAY Netherlands Dance Theatre / Sabine Kupferberg, Karel Hruška, David Krügel, Giogonda Barbuto [ Arthaus Elegance Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "One might better refer to it as a piece about movement and facial expression that doesn't fit into any particular category. It's fun and thought-provoking - definitely worth the time!" (ClassicalNet) |
|
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Piano Music (complete on 6 CDs) Noriko Ogawa, piano [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "This first instalment of an ongoing cycle should be collected by all Debussy enthusiasts who have so far missed out on it" (MusicWeb Feb 2008 on Vol 1) |
|
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works (9CD) Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / 9 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2012 ] This collection contains all Debussy's works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music. Together these display a rich panorama of Debussian sound and a remarkable insight into the composer. Established arrangements by... |
|
DEBUSSY
Complete Piano Works Vol 4 (Etudes) Pascal Roge (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "this release is packed with remarkable insights that will entrance connoisseurs of the Études and win them many new admirers." (BBC) |
|
RAVEL / MOZART / MUSSORGSKY / R. STRAUSS / WAGNER / BACH / BRAHMS / etc
Fritz Reiner - The Complete Columbia Album Collection Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Columbia String Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA / Sony Classical / 14 CD Box Set - released 11/Jun/2020 ] Limited 14CD set. When the 50-year-old Fritz Reiner was appointed conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1938, he was still relatively unfamiliar in his adopted American homeland. This pupil of Bartók at the Academy of Music in his native... |
|
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (complete opera) Christian Gerhaher, Magdalena Kožená, Bernarda Fink, Franz-Josef Selig / London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD + BLU-RAY AUDIO / 4 Hybrid SACD - released 6/Dec/2017 ] "Rattle maintains both a clear pulse in individual scenes and a through line which positively celebrates Debussy's and Maeterlinck's radical intercutting of scenes of varied physical and emotional locations in the central acts." Gramophoe |
|
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Manon (complete opera recorded in 1955) with works by Debussy & Berlioz Victoria de los Angeles / Henri Legay / Jean Borthayre / Michel Dens / Orchestra & Chorus of the Theatre National de lOpera Comique / Pierre Monteux [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2009 ] "This set is essential listening for anyone who wants to get the feel for what Manon sounded like at the Opéra Comique. It is a precious record of a vanished performance style and has the great advantage of a ravishing Manon from de Los Angeles." --... |
|
BACH / SCHUBERT / DEBUSSY / GRIEG / etc
Walter Gieseking - The complete Homocord recordings and other rarities Walter Gieseking (piano) [ APR / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] Describing his youth in his posthumously published memoirs, the legendary French-born, German pianist Walter Gieseking (1895-1956) remembered how, besides all of Wagner's operas, he already 'knew and played most of Bach's [keyboard] works, probably... |