PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

As serious record collectors will already know, Serge Baudo made some outstanding recordings of French repertoire with the Czech Philharmonic (the Honegger symphonies in particular),

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Roussel by Munch

Can you ever have too many Charles Munch Roussel recordings? Okay, it’s a niche, but a very exciting one. The great French conductor’s Bacchus et

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Baudo’s Debussy

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

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Saint-Saens by Ciccolini

This set was the Saint-Saëns piano concerto reference edition of choice until EMI remade all five works with pianist Jean-Philippe Collard and conductor André Previn.

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