Debussy Piano Music

[Beresford]

I like Daniel Ericourt on Ivory Classics (as did the BAL reviewer). As a teenager he turned pages for Debussy, so HIP I guess. Very early French. Sharper than Uchida (just) in the Etudes. The recordings are old and a bit thin, but extremely musical and not too pianistic.

[amateur51]

I like Daniel Ericourt on Ivory Classics (as did the BAL reviewer). As a teenager he turned pages for Debussy, so HIP I guess. Very early French. Sharper than Uchida (just) in the Etudes. The recordings are old and a bit thin, but extremely musical and not too pianistic.

A name I'd not heard before, Beresford - many thanks and welcome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBm_4_XvL4

http://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/73006/pdf/Review_InternationalRecord.pdf

Addition: Download only

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Daniel+Ericourt+

[richardfinegold]

I'd forgotten about the six lp set of complete Debussy recorded by Peter Frankl in - I guess - the 60s and issued in the UK on Turnabout. Recorded sound leaves something to be desired, as was often the case with those Vox/Turnabout recordings (Brendel/Beethoven, Klein/Mozart, Kentner/Liszt, Ponti (there's a name we never hear now)/Tchaikovsky etc) - but rather good performances, as I recall. Incidentally, I also collected the Frankl Schumann cycle - 4 x 3 lp boxes issued in the UK in the late 70s, early 80s - many years later, finding the 5th (Vox) box, never released here, on eBay. Sorry, off-topic; but the Turnabout label was, I guess, the Naxos of its day.

Yes, no one could ever characterize the sonics on the Vox/Turnabout recordings as state of the art, and of course the quality of the pressings of the lps were quite noisy. The CDs are much more listenable due to the elimination of the surface noise. Frankl's Debussy is very good, particularly the Images. The sound is listenable.
Your post reminds me that I too used to own one of the Frankl Schuman boxes, which was probably my introduction to to Carnaval. I believe the box also contained a lot of his lesser known later works.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I like Daniel Ericourt on Ivory Classics (as did the BAL reviewer). As a teenager he turned pages for Debussy, so HIP I guess. Very early French. Sharper than Uchida (just) in the Etudes. The recordings are old and a bit thin, but extremely musical and not too pianistic.

Thanks for this "nudge", Beresford - and artist I wasn't aware of.

And for an even HIPPer selection:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debussy-plays/dp/B000F4L7KS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1352207780&sr=1-1

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting news from Selections:

http://www.selections.com/debussy-c-te-piano-works-4cds.html

[Bryn]

One of the then 2 remaining copies will soon be Grooving its way to me. Given the prices for individual discs via Amazon, the asking price from Grooves is astonishing. Act fast. Still one copy left when I last looked.

The 4 CD set arrived today. I think I may have discovered the reason for the low price. Three items from the original LP issue are missing. This despite there being plenty of room for them on the fourth disc (playing time 39'04". The three are Masques, L'Isle Joyeuse and The Little Nigar. I guess I will have to convert them to the digital domain from the relevant LPs (Disc III, Side One, tracks 5 & 6 and Disc VI, Side Two, track 3).

[Dave2002]

One of the then 2 remaining copies will soon be Grooving its way to me. Given the prices for individual discs via Amazon, the asking price from Grooves is astonishing. Act fast. Still one copy left when I last looked.

One set arrived chez moi today. The recording quality does sound slightly worse than I'd hoped, but it's acceptable, particularly at the low price. I wonder if it's due to the original recording, or if the transfer wasn't optimal.

[teamsaint]

Right, thanks very much for all the advice people.Much appreciated.

I am confused now, so a vote , I think !!

OK, perhaps not, but I shall be putting on of these on the TS letter to Santa
At the current price and given the comments, the Fergus- Thompson at under £12 looks very appealing.

[Bryn]

Curiouser and curiouser. The track-listing sheet for the CDs (you get no programme notes as such), gives a single recording date of 1980, yet the 6 LP set issued in 1984 (replete with programme notes) shows recording publication dates of 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980 and 1981. A somewhat slap-dash approach to the re-issue project, what?

[Bryn]

At the current price and given the comments, the Fergus- Thompson at under £12 looks very appealing.

And very good that set is too. A true bargain I would say. I paid something more in the region of £20, though I did get the Ravel piano works (Paul Crossley) in the same set.

[teamsaint]

And very good that set is too. A true bargain I would say. I paid something more in the region of £20, though I did get the Ravel piano works (Paul Crossley) in the same set.

I have the Crossley anyway, lucky me.
One of the better things about life currently the unbelievable value in recorded music.

On your understandable complaint about your new set, I would suggest that these things are probably put together by inexperienced and poorly paid staff under very tight time constraints. Certainly that is frequently the case in book publishing.Indexes seem to suffer pretty badly !

However, its still pretty inexcusable. One of my gripes about box sets is the failure, often, to put even the movement information on the cardboard sleeves. i know time is money, but copy and pasting a bit of information is the work of moments for a half decent designer.
your date thing is intriguing...probably just took the first date they saw.