Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol.3
On this CD:
1. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L..117
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Martin Jones
2. Préludes (12) for piano, Book II, L. 123
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Martin Jones
Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol.3, Music, Claude Debussy, Martin Jones, Classical, Classical Music, Collection of Preludes for Keyboard, Keyboard, Prelude for Keyboard
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet ~ Debussy - complete piano works, vol. 1
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000004294 Release Date: 1996-08-13 |
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mixed feelings, 3 stars........2007-07-05
Jean-Yves Fan.......2007-03-21
Superior recordings and performances.......2005-09-18
Another installment of great by Thibaudet.......2000-06-13
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Debussy · images, études ~ complete works for piano, vol. 2
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ASIN: B00004SDRF Release Date: 2000-05-09 |
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet is not a pianist to be pigeonholed. Alongside the recordings of his fellow countrymen Debussy and Ravel, he has recorded a tribute to a jazz giant, Conversations with Bill Evans, and he plays on the soundtrack of the film Portrait of a Lady. Perhaps this catholic approach accounts for the freshness of his Debussy playing. Not for him the "stick the pedal down and make an impressionistic wash of sound" approach. His playing is clean and refreshing without losing any of the voluptuous sensuality of Debussy at his most beguiling. There are lollipops to be found among the extensive repertory on these two discs, including the celebrated "Clair de Lune" from the Suite Bergamasque and the "Golliwogg's Cake-Walk" from Children's Corner. The mainstay of the release is the two sets of Images and the two books of Études, 12 studies whose demands are not for the faint of heart. Luckily for us, Thibaudet's heart is strong. He offers virtuosic, thoughtful performances of pieces that, while written to help develop pianists' technique, stand up magnificently as music to be listened to. --Keith ClarkeCustomer Reviews:
Superior recordings and performances.......2005-09-18
BEAUTIFUL.......2002-11-17
Evocative and mesmerizing if a little distorted in places.......2001-04-21
Thibaudet has a gorgeous tone and touch. His musical styling, however, is sometimes accurate, sometimes phlegmatic. He plays the Song of the Doll in "Children's Corner" a little too fast, and in both "Golliwog's Cakewalk" and "Clair de lune" he employs an odd sort of rubato that seems to add a half-beat to certain measures. (In these pieces I know because I used to play them). Despite these quirks, however, his playing has charm, color and a dashing technique reminiscent of Gieseking. The reason I only gave this set 4 stars instead of 5 is because the Etudes are trashy music, mere technical exercises without any redeeming (to me) musical value. If you feel differently, however, I suppose you will rate this as a 5-star album, but to me it was a half-hour of listening time totally wasted. Otherwise, a beautiful album that you will listen to again and again.
Mesmerising and musically imaginative performances.......2000-06-30
However, he is definitely a force to be reckoned with in his native French repertoire, as shown by his marvellous traversal of Ravel's piano pieces in 1992, a set which has won lots of accolades and unanimous praise from critics. He then embarked on a project to record all the solo piano works of Debussy and, in 1996, released the first instalment thereof, a 2-CD set which includes the Preludes, Estampes and Pour le piano. While these recordings aren't able to efface one's memory of the legendary recordings of Walter Gieseking, they're convincing interpretations which further confirm Thibaudet's stature in this repertoire.
Decca has now released the 2nd (and concluding) volume of Debussy's solo piano pieces with Thibaudet, and the results are, if anything, even better. As Thibaudet employs the pedal comparatively sparingly, he doesn't perhaps command the magically luminous and shimmering tone which is the hallmark of Gieseking's Debussy recordings (as can be heard in a 4-CD set released by EMI). Nevertheless, Thibaudet offers here an extraordinary wide range of tonal colours (mostly achieved by the pianist's fingers alone, and is therefore no less impressive from a technical perspective), as well as great sensitivity in phrasing and tempo adjustments that always sound natural and even enchanting while at the same time bringing out the music's many possibilities. Besides, in certain instances (for example in some of the pieces in Children's Corner and the Valse romantique), there exist a degree of charm, wit and sarcastic humour which are mostly absent in Gieseking's recordings of the same pieces.
Thibaudet's performance of the Images is mesmerising. His reading is wonderfully evocative and deeply atmospheric and his tonal gradations and sense of control are both cause for marvel. Under Thibaudet's crisp fingers and sensitive hands, the Etudes are not merely virtuosic pieces composed in an innovative idiom, but are also subtly expressive and musically imaginative vignettes, making one wonder why these gems of the keyboard aren't being performed (and recorded) more often. Indeed, such is the standard of the performances here that, besides some faster than average tempo choices for a few of the pieces (which, however, still sound convincing even if they may not actually be sanctioned by Debussy's markings in the relevant scores), this reviewer has hardly any reservation throughout the 151 minutes of music on offer in this 2-CD set. In fact, the recordings, which are well supported by the Decca engineers, are so musically fascinating and tonally alluring that this reviewer was immediately transported to a trance like state when listening to them for the very first time! This, surely, is one of the most enjoyable new piano releases that have come out in the past few years.
Highly recommended and definitely a set worthy of being investigated by pianophiles.
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Debussy: Complete Works For Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (Sony)
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DSHI Release Date: 1993-04-20 |
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Debussy: Complete works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DSI5 Release Date: 1993-09-07 |
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Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol.3
Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E07I Release Date: 1992-12-02 |
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Satie: The Complete Piano Music, Vol.1
Manufacturer: Swedish Society ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000263ZU Release Date: 1996-10-09 |
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Debussy: The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3
Manufacturer: Bridge Records, Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000OCZC4S Release Date: 2007-04-03 |
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American pianist Bennett Lerner s highly praised Complete Debussy series continues with this newly recorded disc. The triptych was Debussy s favored form for his larger works, usually consisting of two slow pieces followed by a fast one. In addition to seven short, mostly late, pieces, this CD presents four such triptychs. The earliest is is the Images (oubli es) (Forgotten Images), composed in 1894 and long forgotten. The manuscript was in the collection of Alfred Cortot, and was not published until 1977. Images, Series 1 begins with one of Debussy s great masterpieces, "Reflets dans l eau", given a masterful reading here by Lerner. Bennett Lerner is well known as a performer of new music and has premiered piano works by composers including Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Irving Fine, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, Roy Harris, Samuel Barber and Virgil Thomson. A student of Claudio Arrau, he has lived in Thailand since 1990 and is currently a lecturer in the Music Department of Payap University in Chiang Mai, where he recently produced a two-year-long Debussy Festival. Also available The Complete Debussy Piano Music, Vol. 1, BRIDGE 9186 The Complete Debussy Piano Music, Vol. 2, BRIDGE 9211A/B
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Violin, Trumpet, Guitar, Flute: Greatest Hits
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000029NR Release Date: 1995-12-05 |
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Complete Works for Solo Piano - Vol. 4
Claude Debussy , and Paul Crossley Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DSL4 Release Date: 1994-03-08 |
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Debussy: Complete Piano Works, Vol. Two
Manufacturer: Nimbus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E07H Release Date: 1989-01-01 |
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