Debussy: Pr?ludes
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Composer: Claude DebussyPerformer: Walter Gieseking
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-03-14
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- No. 1, "Danseuses de Delphes"
- No. 2, "Voiles"
- No. 3, "Le vent dans la plaine"
- No. 4, "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" (Baudelaire)
- No. 5, "Les collines d'Anacapri"
- No. 6, "Des pas sur la neige"
- No. 7, "Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest"
- No. 8, "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (Girl With the Flaxen Hair)
- No. 9, "La serenade interrompue"
- No. 10, "La cathedrale engloutie" (The Sunken Cathedral)
- No. 11, "La danse de Puck"
- No. 12, "Minstrels"
- No. 1, "Brouillards"
- No. 2, "Feuilles mortes"
- No. 3, "La Puerta del Vino"
- No. 4, "Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses"
- No. 5, "Bruyeres"
- No. 6, "General Lavine - eccentric"
- No. 7, "La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune"
- No. 8, "Ondine"
- No. 9, "Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C" (inspired by Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pi
- No. 10, "Canope"
- No. 11, "Les tierces alternees"
- No. 12, "Feux d'artifice"
Music reviews of Debussy: Pr?ludes
Music Review: Gieseking Triumphs Over Music, But Not Sound Itself
Rating: 3 Stars
To call Walter Gieseking an extraordinary pianist would be an understatement. After all, how many pianists could study their scores in utter quietude, playing the notes solely in their own minds as a form of practice? Just imagine Gieseking sitting for hours pondering the score with no movement besides his eyes flicking back and forth across the pages. If that wasn't miracle enough, his wife actually tolerated his behavior.
Gieseking is rightly renowned as a great interpreter of Debussy (among others), and here he never fails to disappoint. However, there are disadvantages to listening to a recording that is almost 55 years old. The obvious problem with this recording is that it is a mono recording. Put in laymen's terms, the listener hears "what he would hear at the microphone position if only one of his ears was functioning...in such a system it is not possible to gain any impression of the position of the instrument groupings in an orchestra, nor can lateral movement be indicated." Mono sound is less crippling for the pianist than for an entire orchestra. Nonetheless, the notes in this recording sound a little flatter and lack a little of the luster that you would find in a good stereo recording.
Some might argue that Gieseking's superb interpretation trumps such sound flaws - but I have to disagree. There are other terrific interpreters of Debussy. Hearing Radu Lupu play these same preludes in Orchestra Hall last year was a melodic experience that I won't soon forget, (though sadly Lupu has yet to record it). It's understandable if you are a connoisseur who would like this recording for its historic value or Gieseking's unique interpretation. But it would be a mistake to claim that this is the definitive recording of the preludes or that no other rendition is needed in one's collection.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Debussy, Claude
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( G ) > Gieseking, Walter
- Forms & Genres > Preludes
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Debussy, Claude - Works by Debussy
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