DEBUSSY : 12 Etudes (Mitsuko Uchida) (1990) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Collectors may want to know how Philips' latest incarnation of Mitsuko Uchida's 1989 Debussy Etudes differs from earlier CD issues. A 2001 reissue in Philips' "50 Great Recordings" series offered 24-bit remastering that yielded more palpable room ambience, clearer definition, and a more natural equalization of the piano than the excellent-sounding original release. The warmer, rounder impact I glean from the present "Originals" transfer appears to result from slightly beefing up the bass. Admittedly, these are hair-splitting considerations, and you can't go wrong with either reissue, but if you already own the 2001 version (my personal preference), you need not replace it.
Uchida's interpretations are distinguished by her ability to reconcile fastidious observation of the composer's markings with her acute instincts for nuance and flexibility. The first etude's burlesqued piano-practice scales are clearly articulated without ever sounding notey, while the three double-note etudes stand out for supple, ultra-secure fingerwork and ravishing tone color. Uchida's stunning dispatch of the seventh etude, "Pour les huit doigts", adds up to a master class on the subject of when and when not to pedal.

So does the pianist's vividly characterized eighth etude. Here's a case where taking interpretive liberties works to the music's benefit. For example, Debussy wants the penultimate measures sustained. However, Uchida lifts the pedal on the second to last measure so that the final cluster makes a more surprising and humorous impact. She leans into etude eleven's gorgeous polytextural writing for all it's worth, and brings sweeping ferocity to the chord/octave leaps in the final etude's outer sections. In short, Uchida's Debussy Etudes proudly retains its status as a classic, notwithstanding subsequent and serious rivalry from Florent Bouffard (Harmonia Mundi) and Ju-Ying Song (Pro Piano). Absolutely essential! Claude Debussy at Allmusic / Claude Debussy at Wiki

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
1-12. Douze Etudes Pour Piano (47:12)
Piano – Mitsuko Uchida

DEBUSSY : Preludes · Images · Children's Corner (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) 2CD (2020) FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

Tracklist & Credits :

EMMANUEL PAHUD : JACKY TERRASSON — Into The Blue (2002) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Emmanuel Pahud is an award-winning classical flutist who's also Principal Flute for the Berlin Philharmonic. Jacky Terrasson is an award-winning jazz pianist who's a Principal Original on the scene; uniquely playful and inventive, it's always interesting to see what he comes up with next. This time he rearranges 14 classical melodies in a jazz context. More than half are short tracks, colorful samples from jazz's favorite French Impressionists (Ravel, Faure, and Debussy)to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (all four) and pieces by Schumann, Mozart, Paganini, Rimsky-Korsakov "Flight of the Bumblebee," Saint-Saëns, and jazz pianist Claude Bolling, who in the 70s teamed up with legendary flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal to record their own crossover tracks. Although he also respects the basic character of the music, Terrasson is more adventurous. For example, the much-beloved "Pavane" (Ravel) is still serene, but with interludes of communal passion and trio jazz, as fine bassist Sean Smith and drummer Ali Jackson provide subtle, quickly reactive support. "Bolero" is an exciting journey which obliterates all memory of the plodding and repetitious original; it features a happy Latin groove that dances under the melody, then segues seamlessly into funk and Fender Rhodes. If Pahud's improvisations are rather basic, his tone is beautiful and he swings, as does the bass/drum section, after which the whole thing goes Jamaican -- before returning to Latin. It sounds like a mishmosh in print, but it works. So does the beautiful "Apres un Reve," which conjures the countryside of southern France where the CD was recorded, and "Jimbo's Lullaby," which originally described a lumbering elephant, but is meditative and nearly Oriental here. On "Marche Turque," Mozart meets reggae and humor. In fact, there's wit throughout this CD, as well as imagination and top-level playing. Both classical and jazz fans will find much to enjoy. Judith Schlesinger   Tracklist & Credits :

LIADOV • MEDTNER • SCRIABIN • PROKOFIEV • BORODIN • DEBUSSY • GOLTZ • GLAZUNOV • LISZT • CHOPIN - Recordings : 1937-1953 (Vladimir Sofronitsky) (2007) 2CD / APE (image+.cue), lossless

CD1
Anatoly Liadov
1    Prélude in B Minor Op. 11 No. 1 (14. 6.1949)
2    Music Box Op. 32 (14.6.1949)
3    Waltz in E Major Op. 57 No. 3 (15.7.1949)

Nikolai Medtner
4    Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 (2.7.1947)

Alexander Scriabin
5-6    2 Préludes Op. 27 (28.3.1938)

Fryderyk Chopin
7    Mazurka Op. 41 No. 2 (1937-1941)
8    Waltz Op. 70 No. 1 (5.1941)
9    Etude Op. 10 No. 4 (16.6.1937)

Franz Liszt
10     Concert Etude S145 "Gnomenreigen" (25.6.1937)

Boris Goltz
11    Prélude in E Minor (17.11.1938)
12    Scherzo in E Minor (17.11.1938)

Alexander Borodin
13    Petite Suite (Au couvent, Intermezzo, Mazurka I, Mazurka II Rêverie, Sérénade, Nocturne (12.7.1950)

Dmitri Kabalevsky  
14-16    Sonatina in C Major Op. 13 No. 1 (1953)

Sergei Prokofiev
17-20    Four Taies of a Grandmother Op. 31 (2.12.1946)
21    Vision fugitive Op. 22 No. 7 (1953)
22    Sarcasm Op. 22 No. 7 (1953)

CD2
Prokofiev
1-6    6 Pièces for Piano from Op. 12 (1953)

Anatoly Liadov
7-11    Six Preludes

Alexander Glazunov
12    Prelude In D Flat Major Op 49 No 1
13    Prelude & Fugue In A Minor Op 101 No 1

Claude Debussy
14    Prélude: Livre II "Feuilles Mortes"
15    Prélude: Livre II "Canope"
16    Children's Corner: "Serenade Of The Doll"

Alexander Scriabin
17    Piano Sonata No 3 Op 23

Piano – Vladimir Sofronitsky

MAURIZIO POLLINI — Maurizio Pollini Edition (2002) 13CD | APE (image+.cue), lossless

Celebrating his 60th birthday (5 January 2002) and a 30-year artistic
collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, the Maurizio Pollini Edition presents a wide-ranging series of DG exclusive artist's classic recordings, personally selected and approved by the Maestro himself.

The Edition comprises 12 single CDs, plus a sensational bonus CD. Almost all the compilations are new, and cover all aspects of Pollini's recording career. There are three CDs of Classical and Romantic concertos, 5 CDs are devoted to the masters of Romantic solo music, and 4 CDs given over to modern repertoire, a central component of Pollini's artistic credo.

What is on the bonus CD? There are two concerto recordings released for the first time internationally. The first is Chopin's First Piano Concerto, taped live at the final concert of the 1960 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1960, where Pollini was the sensational winner at the age of 18. The second is the Schumann Piano Concerto, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 1974 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan.

CD 1: Mozart :
Piano Concerto No.23 / Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm

CD 2:
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.3 & 4
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

CD 3: Schumann:
Piano Concerto Op.54 / Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

CD 4: Beethoven :
Piano Sonatas Op.27 No.1 & 2, Op.31 No.2 & Op.53

CD 5: Beethoven :
Piano Sonatas Op.106 "Hammerklavier" & Op.111

CD 6: Schubert :
Sonata in A major D959; Allegretto in C minor D915; 3 Klavierstucke

CD 7: Chopin :
12 Etudes Op.25; Sonata in B flat minor Op.35; Berceuse in D flat, Op.57

CD 8: Schumann :
Fantasy in C; Arabesque / Liszt: Sonata in B minor; La lugubre gondola

CD 9: Debussy :
12 Etudes / Boulez: Sonata No.2
Maurizio Pollini

CD 10: Stravinsky :
3 Dances from Petrushka / Bartok: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2
Maurizio Pollini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado

CD 11: Schoenberg :
Piano Works / Webern: Variations Op.27
Maurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

CD 12: Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz; ....Sofferte onde serene....for piano
and magnetic tape / Manzoni: Masse: Omaggio a Edgar Varese
Slavka Taskova, Maurizio Pollini, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,
Claudio Abbado

CD 13: Chopin :
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11 / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Maurizio Pollini, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Katlewicz
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

DEBUSSY : Complete Music for Piano Duo (Massimiliano Damerini, Marco Rapetti) (2013) 3CD | FLAC (tracks), lossless

If it is true that the end of Romanticism coincided with the invention of electric light, then we can date this to 1880 – the year in which Thomas Alva Edison patented the light bulb. At around this time, a brilliant student at the Paris Conservatoire, Claude Debussy, decided to embark upon a composing career that would soon ‘illuminate’ the history of music.

Debussy’s output is roughly divided into three periods, each of which is represented by one of the three discs in this set. Focusing solely on his works for piano duo, the collection effectively represents a vantage point from which to analyse his stylistic development, since it touches on both Debussy's piano and orchestral writing simultaneously: as well as original keyboard works (Lindaraja is one example, the composer's first work inspired by Spain), there are piano pieces arranged for orchestra, vice-versa compositions (Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune, for instance) and music that was clearly intended for the orchestra or for specific ensembles (one example is Le triomphe de Bacchus, for which the orchestration was never completed).

Performing these works are two of Italy's most celebrated pianists, Massimiliano Damerini and Marco Rapetti. Their accomplished readings highlight the unique relationship that exists between piano and orchestra – the former can be seen as a monochromatic version of the latter, with the latter essentially describing the former in polychromatic terms – and, at the same time, draw the listener's attention towards an important area of 19th-century music-making: namely piano transcriptions’ vital role in making operatic and symphonic repertoire available to all. brilliantclassics.com

JACQUES LOUSSIER TRIO - The Music of Debussy (2000) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

When Jacques Loussier gave the music of Johann Sebastian Bach the jazz treatment (as others, notably the Modern Jazz Quartet, had before him), it worked really well. The tumbling flow of Bach's contrapuntal lines, the square rhythms that just beg to be played with a swing feel -- everything about Bach that makes his music the farthest thing from jazz seems to make jazz adaptations inevitable. The French composer Claude Debussy is a less obvious choice, and on this album you see why. Debussy was a much more impressionistic composer, and his music doesn't have either the rhythmic vitality or the sense of driving tonal logic that fuels the music of Bach. That makes it harder to fit his compositions into a jazz context. That Loussier succeeds as much as he does is a compliment to his sensitivity as a pianist and to his trio's ability to work with him intuitively. Loussier's renditions of "Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" and "Reverie" sound a lot like Bill Evans at his most ethereal; things pick up a bit on "L'Isle Joyeuse," but even that relatively energetic track is pretty well lacking in swing. The final result is music that doesn't sound much like jazz, but is quite enjoyable anyway. by Rick Anderson 
Tracklist:
1    Clair de Lune 8:03       
2    Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'Un Faune 10:47  
3    Araesque 6:23       
4    La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin 4:43  
5    L' Isle Joyeuse 6:06   
6    Reverie 5:10   
7    La Cathédrale Engloutie 6:23  
8    Syrinx 3:54
Credits:
Piano, Arranged By – Jacques Loussier
Bass – Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac
Composed By – Claude Debussy
Drums – André Arpino

DEBUSSY : The Complete Music for Two Pianos (Coombs-Scott) (1991) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

VERA DULOVA - Legends of the 20th Century : Vera Dulova (2011) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

DEBUSSY / TURINA / MARTIN - Piano Trios (The Borodin Trio) (1992 ) Mp3

DEBUSSY / STRAVINSKY / BARTÓK - Transcriptions for Two Pianists [Bavouzet-Guy] Chandos / 2015

DEBUSSY / STRAVINSKY / BARTÓK 

 Transcriptions for Two Pianists [Bavouzet-Guy]

2015 Chandos / FLAC / scans

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CLAUDE DEBUSSY - THe Debussy Edition [2012] V.A. / DG / 18CD Box-Set

Claude Debussy [1862-1918]

CD01 - Orchestral Works I

 CD02 - Orchestral Works II

CD03 - Orchestral Works III

CD04 - Solo Piano Works I

CD05 - Solo Piano Works II

CD06 - Solo Piano Works III

CD07 - Solo Piano Works IV

CD08 - Solo Piano Works V

CD09 - Works For Piano Duet & Two Pianos

CD10 - Chamber Music

CD11 - Mélodies I

CD12 - Mélodies II

CD13 - Mélodies III

CD14 - Mélodies IV

CD15 - Pelléas et Mélisande, act 1 - act 3 (beg.)

CD16 - Pelléas et Mélisande, act 3 (end) - act 5

CD17 - Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans

CD18 - Bonus CD

THE DEBUSSY EDITION
[2012] V.A. / DG / DECCA / 18CD / CBR320 / scans

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