Debussy - Preludes

[Guest]

I have three sets of these, Arrau, Gieseking & Michelangeli.

Do I need another?

[Belgrove]

Bavouzet on Chandos.

[vinteuil]

I have three sets of these, Arrau, Gieseking & Michelangeli.

Do I need another?

Well, my current preferences are : -

Alain Planès [Bechstein, 1897]
Jos van Immerseel [Érard, 1897]
Robert Casadesus (rec. 1953)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet

I have an incomplete Michelangeli (Vatican, 29 April 1977) : which Michelangeli do you have?

[Basil]

I have an incomplete Michelangeli (Vatican, 29 April 1977) : which Michelangeli do you have?

The complete DGG set.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Claude-Debussy-Piano-Works/dp/B0000012XV/ref=sr_1_11?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1294843992&sr=1-11

[umslopogaas]

Among several recordings, with considerably more of book 1 than book 2, I have a 2 LP mono set of both books by the pianist Reine Gianoli, of whom I have never otherwise heard. The records are Nixa Westminster recordings, undated but from somewhen in the 1950s.

A brief sleeve note says she studied from the age of ten with the eminent professor Madame Giraud-Latarse and also received lessons from Yves Nat and Alfred Cortot. She was first presented to the Parisian public by Cortot and played a Beethoven concerto - as far as I can interpret the note, she was only sixteen at the time. That year she made her debut with the Concerts Colonne under Paul Paray.

That's all and it all seems a long time ago. Does anyone know any more about her?

[Pianorak]

Krystian Zimerman on DG

[HighlandDougie]

On Reine Gianoli, see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reine_Gianoli

Hope the reference to a French website doesn't me get cast out of this forum (as it did with R3MB)!

[verismissimo]

Dino Ciani!

[Panjandrum]

Dino Ciani!

yes, indeed!

I'll raise you Rogé (Book 1)

[vinteuil]

Dino Ciani!

o yes, Dino Ciani!

and Samson Francois!!

and perhaps especially Marcelle Meyer!!!

[gradus]

So many great pianists have recorded these works. Amongst my long term musical companions are the Pascal Roge versions on Onyx, a slightly lukewarm reception when issued a couple of years ago but full of insights and delightful playing. The Roge Decca Book 1 is equally fine and kept in the car, as I never know when I'll need it!

[umslopogaas]

M7 HighlandDougie

Many thanks for that link. My French is terrible, but not quite as terrible as I thought it was, I could just about read it and it was informative. It appears she was content to live and work in her native country without making an Anglophone career, apart perhaps from the Westminster recordings. And why not, indeed? If I had native French and could play the piano well enough to earn money, I wouldnt live in England either.

Mind you, if I could read an article in French, it must be written in a particularly simple style! I only just stumbled through the O level and that was close to fifty years ago.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I'd second the recommendation of Alain Planès and would add Steven Osborne on Hyperion.

[Barbirollians]

Livia Rev !!! on Saga . Unsurpassed still - we had a discussion about this on the R£ messageboard shortly before it closed.

[BBMmk2]

Thibaudet!!