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In Debussy’s Nocturnes Sergiu Celibidache lets the clouds of Nuages drift by at a dreamily slow pace, conjuring up a lazy summer afternoon, while he
This is one of the finest Debussy recordings around. It combines two performances from the 1960s (the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and
Most us might think of Gabriel Fauré as a 19th century composer, but he lived through the first quarter of the 20th century. He remained
This is volume two of Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s complete Debussy piano music. Unfortunately, things haven’t improved since volume one, which included a dull reading of both
The French art of song is a subtle one. Unfortunately, Véronique Gens’ lush voice doesn’t always match the sensuality and refinement of the songs included
The Debussy and Ravel selections stem from an excellently engineered 1956 BBC recital taped less than a month before Walter Gieseking’s untimely death. In truth,
Major classical artists often re-record their specialties, from Stokowski’s four Scheherezades to umpteen Karajan Beethoven cycles. Similarly, the great German pianist Walter Gieseking seemed to
The violinist Gilles Apap was born in Nice, France, but has been living in California for more than a decade. A protégé of Yehudi Menuhin,
The art of transcription is a difficult one. Many pieces resist the passage from one instrumental sphere to another. Although Anders Miolin may be a
The quartets by Debussy and Ravel are as much about color as they are about style, technical precision, and the awesomely intricate details of phrasing.
