DEBUSSY CLAUDE

(3-CD SET) COMPLETE MUSIC FOR PIANO DUO
If it is true that the end of Romanticism coincided with the invention of electric light, then we can date this to 1880 -- the year in which Thomas Alva Edison patented the light bulb. At around this time, a brilliant student at the Paris Conservatoire, Claude Debussy, decided to embark upon a composing career that would soon 'illuminate' the history of music. Debussy's output is roughly divided into three periods, each of which is represented by one of the three discs in this set. Focusing solely on his works for piano duo, the collection...
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(CD) VIOLIN SONATA, CELLO SONATA, PIANO TRIO
These original works and arrangements for violin, cello and piano by Claude Debussy span the composer's protean career, from the early Piano Trio of 1880 to the Cello Sonata of 1915 and the Violin Sonata, completed in 1917 as part of an abortive six-sonata project which ended halfway when he died the following year. Especially since the performances are given with the experience harvested by three musicians who are better known as early-music specialists, soaked in the philosophy of historically informed performance practice, they offer an...
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(CD+BOOKLET) LA MUSIQUE A MOI
The 150 years anniversary after Debussy's birth, was the occasion to turn a long-lasting confrontation with his music into a musical-theatrical performance. Debussy's music which, upon listening, would colour my childhood imagination, remained the most familiar and loved, however many new musical experiences were added to it. Another opportunity, that of the customary Christmas Concert at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, gave the images, the emotions and several years of study the chance to be expressed on stage. Not, how...
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(CD) SONATE POUR FLUTE, ALTO ET HARPE - SYRINX - CHANSONS DE BILITIS
'The great twin reed on which we lay beneath the sky.' Stephane Mallarme was very impressed by the way in which Debussy had expanded on the moods of his poem, L'Apres-midi d'un faune. The flute is not the most widely used instrument in Debussy's music, but he wrote one or two masterpieces for it. With the exception of his famous last Sonata for flute, viola and harp, all of the pieces on this recording were associated with theatrical or literary performances - an opportunity to put Syrinx back in context (Gabriel Mourey's drama, Psyche) a...
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(CD) POINT AND LINE
Born in Osaka, educated at the Conservatoire National Sup?rieur de Paris, Momo Kodama is well-placed to approach music from both Eastern and Western vantage points, as she does in this album which interweaves etudes of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955). Both composers have similarly been border-crossers. Debussy, pointing to music of the future, looked to the Orient for inspiration. Hosokawa has combined aspects of Japanese and European tradition in his contemporary compositions. Momo Kodama: "In the music of Toshi...
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(CD) TRE VOCI
Η Kim Kashkashian, η οποία πρόσφατα απέσπασε το βραβείο Grammy για την ηχογράφησή της Kurtag | Ligeti (ECM New Series 2240), επιστρέφει με ένα νέο άλμπουμ. Στο Tre Voci συμμετέχουν από η ιταλο-αμερικανίδα φλαουτίστα Μarina Piccinini και o Ισραηλινός αρπίστας Sivan Magen. Και οι τρεις σολίστ έχουν διακριθεί σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο για τα νέα στοιχεία που προσδίδουν στην τεχνική του οργάνου με την ερμηνεία τους. Οι Kashkashian, Piccinini και Magen έπαιξαν για πρώτη φορά μαζί Marlboro Music Festival, το 2010. Από τότε έχουν αναπτύξει το ρεπερτόρ...
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(CD) PIANO WORKS: TWO ARABESQUES - PRELUDES - CLAIR DE LUNE - L'ISLE JOYEUSE - CHILDREN'S CORNER

(CD) 12 ETUDES - ESTAMPES - 2 ARABESQUES - L'ISLE JOYEUSE
The Debussy-year 2012 brought a wealth of reissues on the market, but surprisingly few new recordings. Reason the more to welcome this new recording of a generous selection of Debussy piano works, centred around the substantial "12 Etudes".These works, written in the later stage of Debussy's creative life, form the apotheosis of his style. Far from any evocative "impressionistic" Tonmalerei or picturesque atmosphere painting they are Debussy's answer to the Etudes of Chopin, purely abstract creations of melody, harmony and rhythm. Fiercely...
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(CD) FLAVOURS
This compilation provides a showcase of the many aspects of the cello and the range of emotions and characters that the instrument is able to convey. Opening the collection is Debussy's technically demanding Sonata in D minor, a staple of the cello repertoire. The whimsical motives, repetitive tones and scales of this work give way to the ingenious combination of atonality and Romantic lyricism of Schnittke's Sonata No.1, which is followed by Beethoven's visionary Sonata No.5 in D, a homage to J.S. Bach. This is in turn succeeded by Van Br...
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(5-CD SET) COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC
Featuring some of the most original and beautiful music ever written for the piano, this superb 5-CD release is dedicated to Debussy's complete works for the instrument and is sure to provide hours of enjoyable listening. Claude Debussy, a fine pianist himself, created a unique piano oeuvre in which the colouristic and harmonic qualities of the piano were developed, resulting in unheard-of dynamics and sonorities (Debussy's ideal was a piano without hammers). The compilation details a few early gems, such as the enchanting R?verie of 1890...
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(2CD) PRELUDES
Μια τυχαία συνάντηση με ένα παλιό Steinway στη πολωνική πρεσβεία των Βρυξελλών - που λέγεται ότι ήταν το πιάνο που ο Padarewski χρησιμοποιούσε στις συναυλίες του - έδωσε το έναυσμα τον Alexei Lubimov να σκεφτεί νέους τρόπους ερμηνείας του Debussy. Mαζί με τον Ρώσο πιανίστα Alexei Zuev που υπήρξε μαθητής του από το 2000, παίζουν κατά κάποιο τρόπο "όργανα εποχής" -συγκεκριμένα της εποχής του συνθέτη-. Όπως ο Jurg Stenzl τονίζει στο εισαγωγικό σημείωμα, "οι δυο μουσικοί δεν ενδιαφέρονται τόσο για τη μυστικιστική διάσταση των αυθεντικών οργάν...
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(2CD) FRIEDRICH GULDA
Friedrich Gulda (piano)...
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(H/B) THE POETIC DEBUSSY
This completely revised second edition of The Poetic Debussy contains the most recent discoveries in the composer's oeuvre, including a number of hitherto unknown songs. The texts of all Debussy's songs, both in the original French and with revised English translations on the facing page, are collected in chronological order, with notes and location of sources. In addition, Margaret Cobb has brought together a fascinating selection of Debussy's letters which have poetic refences, and has updated the notes on those twenty-six compositions b...
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