Claude Debussy: The Complete Works
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Claude Debussy: The Complete Works
Quatuor Ebene, Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, etc
[ Warner Classics / 33 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Tuesday 13 February 2018
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
This 33-CD set, comprising outstanding recordings selected by Debussy experts, exemplifies the depth and breadth of the Warner Classics catalogue and the label's commitment to producing comprehensive landmark editions of the highest quality.
Being complete, the set complements much-loved masterpieces, the foundation of Debussy's reputation, with works that remain lesser-known or which have even remained undiscovered until now.
It includes transcriptions/orchestrations of Debussy's works by other composers that Debussy himself approved, and also Debussy's own transcriptions of works by other composers, some of them previously unrecorded.
Among the works given world-premiere recordings are:
• Chanson des brises (1882) for female voices and piano
• Diane au bois (1885-87) for soprano, ténor et piano
• The first version (1898) of the Chansons de Charles d'Orléans;
• Fragments of the opera La Chute de la maison Usher (1916) as Debussy left it
• Piano reductions of Khamma and Jeux by the composer.
Debussy himself can be heard accompanying the Scottish soprano Mary Garden (his original Mélisande) in the Ariettes oubliées and a short extract from Pelléas et Mélisande, and in various piano works, recorded for the gramophone and in the form of piano rolls.
The recording of the mystery play with music Le Martyre de saint Sébastien, conducted by André Cluytens, is the only recording to present Gabriele d'Annunzio's complete text.
"Presented chronologically within each genre, it's a scrupulously assembled and documented collection...As a reference source it is invaluable, especially for tracking down some of the early songs or more obscure fragments of orchestral music...There are very few musicological loose ends here, and to have all these rarities as well as the masterpieces available in a single package (though without any texts and translations), makes it a very satisfying survey." The Guardian
"This is one of those releases that one need not be ashamed or embarrassed for assigning superlatives to: It's one of the most exciting recordings (the Debussy) that I've ever heard, and one of the most beautiful, too."
(MusicWeb Recording of the Month Jan 2009 on the String Quartet)
Tracks:
This set includes:
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (Quatuor Ebène)
Piano Trio in G major (Bertrand Chamayou, piano, Renaud Capuçon, violin, Edgar Moreau, cello)
Danse bohemienne
Mazurka
Rêverie
Danse - Tarantelle styrienne
Rhapsody for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116 'Première rapsodie'
Syrinx for solo flute
Cello Sonata
Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp (Yehudi Menuhin, viola, Lily Laskine, harp, Michel Debost, flute)
Fantasie for piano and orchestra
Ballade slave
Suite Bergamasque (Cécile Ousset, piano)
Arabesques (2) (Michel Béroff, piano)
Images oubliées (3) for piano (Aldo Ciccolini, piano)
Pour le piano (Samson François, piano)
Estampes (3) (Complete)
Images pour piano
Children's Corner
Préludes
Khamma
Études pour piano
Le triomphe de Bacchus
Première Suite d'Orchestre
Divertissement for piano 4 hands
Petite Suite
La Mer (Jean-Pierre Armengaud, piano, Olivier Chauzu, piano)
6 Epigraphes antiques (Geneviève Joy, piano), Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau, piano)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Trois Nocturnes
Rhapsody for alto saxophone & piano (or orchestra)
Danses sacrée et profane
La Mer (Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini)
Images for orchestra, L. 122 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle)
La Boite A Joujoux
Berceuse héroïque
Danse - Tarantelle styrienne
Children's Corner (Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Jean Martinon, Jules Goetgheluck, oboe)
Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire (Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Michel Béroff, piano)
Pelléas et Mélisande
Éric Tappy (tenor), Sidney Weiss (violin), Rachel Yakar (soprano) / L'Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Armin Jordan
and much much more
