Michelangeli supported by Bavouzet for me. I have a few I've not listened to for ages, Gulda, Cortot, for example. Then there's Richter, of course, always his own man, who played only some of them, but sublimely!
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Must buy that Bavouzet complete set of Debussy’s piano music.Don’t cry for me
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I don't have any recordings of this collection, but I do have the sheet music, kindly autographed by Peter Katin in 1971.
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Play one for us, EA?
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There are those around here who wouldn't like that. I dare to use the sostenuto pedal, when playing Debussy.Originally posted by greenilex View PostComment
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As if on cue, just as Zimerman's account of Des pas sur la neige began, a fox carefully walked up the garden, with paws as delicately placed as a stylus in the drifts - a serendipitous image that from now on will be associated with the piece.
I'd not listened to Zimerman for some time, and it certainly among the best recorded, but his La cathedrale engloutie and La fille aux cheveux de lin, are rather too drawn out, indulgent. Gieseking's interpretation (my introduction to these pieces) now seems mannered and pallid, quite apart from the ancient sound. Roget is rather good all round, but the recording seems to have a masking aural veil. So of the versions I have, it's Bavouzet and Rev that are the most satisfying, not least for their differences. It will be interesting to hear views on Osborne and Hough, whose two recent Debussy discs featuring other repertoire I have been listening to recently and greatly enjoyed.Comment
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Anyone heard Stokowski's transcription for orchestra of The Submerged Cathedral? Quite masterful, IMO. Better than Colin Matthews's.Don’t cry for me
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I've got a 'thing' about Stokowski's transcriptions...a negative thing. OK they did much to popularise some of the classics, but they were a phenomenon of their time, and from my point of view best forgotten! Especially the Bach...
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Heard it on the radio a few weeks ago. Great funOriginally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostComment
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I too, largely to cover my inadequaciesOriginally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
(see recent post on Debussy/Rameau 'Early Music Show' thread...)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I was quite serious.
Can we have our own audio recital space? Would it be a challenge technically or otherwise?Comment
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It's probably a lot easier for performing Forumistas to set up a youTube account and then post links to videos on the Forum.Originally posted by greenilex View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Or if you have a Dropbox account or similar links can be made to audio files.Comment
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Livia Rev’s Saga recording won in the 1980s and on That short lived 4 CD set of a few years back they are wonderful still.
Arrau’s recording I did not get on with at all.Last edited by Barbirollians; 19-03-18, 22:02.Comment
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Thinking about the moment that Debussy's piano music decisively entered my life: it was a recital by Vlado Perlemuter in the Town Hall in Cheltenham in the early 1970s. He replaced an 'indisposed' Michelangeli, who I've never actually caught sight of.
For me, Perlemuter was a revelation - his playing so clear in articulation, nothing like the washes of sound I'd experienced up to that time.
Yet there are virtually no recordings of his Debussy. I wonder why not?Comment
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