Debussy - Estampes (3)

With natural pacing and a broad timbral palette, Giorgini is well suited to this music, yet this album does not challenge the front rank in a crowded field. There is a warmth to the sound that... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

here Osborne’s phrasing and pacing is pure and poetic, as well as raptly atmospheric in ‘The Snow is Dancing’ and it finishes with a deliciously louche cake-walk. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bavouzet's strengths…to the fore, with glowing colours in the opening Ballade and Valse romantique, followed by sparkling elegance in the Danse. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Exhaustive, the sum of the crème de la crème of the discography...THE Debussy box set to have…No richer panorama exists for the melodies (the complete EMI recordings alongside never-before-released... — Diapason More…

Where Alexander Melnikov chose a period Érard piano for book 2 of the Preludes, Javier Perianes plumps for a modern Steinway to complete the set with Book 1. Both approaches work, and Perianes... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gieseking was indeed a ‘sorcerer’. Hear him in ‘Voiles’, ‘Les sons et les parfums’ or ‘Des pas sur la neige’ and you sense how everything is accomplished by tonal finesse rather than heavy underlining... — International Piano, October 2022 More…