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Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
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Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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Debussy - Orchestral Music
RecommendedGeorge Pieterson (clarinet), Vera Badings (harp)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
If you only buy one album of Debussy orchestral music, this is a very good bet! Comprising his best-known works at an excellent price, it's a great starting-point around which to build a library... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, November 2003, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, November 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Stravinsky: Pétrouchka & Debussy: Jeux & Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
I was particularly impressed with the gorgeous timbres of Mäkelä’s wonderfully evocative account of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and the performance of the incredibly subtle... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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Debussy and Ravel: La Mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Rapsodie espagnole
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
A disciple of Pierre Boulez, Roth has the same analytical clarity and ear for sonorities, but brings a surging emotional engagement to Debussy’s sea pictures..Roth relishes Ravel’s tribute to... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Debussy: La Mer & Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Philharmonia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado
Heras-Casado produces fine performances of all these pieces, with the Philharmonia’s unnamed flautist conveying just the right feeling of languor and expressive freedom in the solo passages... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Special offer. Debussy: La Mer & Piano Preludes transcribed for orchestra
RecommendedBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
…Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, resplendently recorded, capture the languorous sensuality of L'après-midi supremely well, with the flautist Emmanuel Pahud phrasing in huge spans, and with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2005, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Denève still summons a sensuous bloom in the Prélude, and thanks to his influence, the RSNO proves better than the French at their own game: these are among the most seductive Debussy performances... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from Lugano 2016
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Sergey Babayan (piano), Sergio Tiempo (piano), Karin Lechner (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano)
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David Guerrier, horn
violino, Tedi Papavrami (violin)
piano, Stephen Kovacevich (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,...
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides - and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Debussy: Nocturnes, Jeux, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles’ period-instrument sound and the restrained... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Record Review, 22nd December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes with the LSO is a good find; Svetlanov and the Philharmonia bring romantic warmth to Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La Mer surges with the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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