Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, La mer & Jeux

Featuring

Valery Gergiev
London Symphony Orchestra
Claude Debussy

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Recording & Production

This album features live recordings made at the Barbican in London, with different pieces recorded on various dates between September 2009 and May 2010.

Composer Biography

Claude Debussy won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1884, a composition prize that allowed him to spend two years in Italy.

Performer Biography

Valery Gergiev is the founder and artistic director of several international music festivals, including the Gergiev Rotterdam Festival and the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg.

Composer Biography

Claude Debussy, despite an insecure family background and his father being imprisoned as a revolutionary, pursued piano lessons and was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire in 1872.

Performer Biography

The London Symphony Orchestra, featured on this recording, was formed in 1904 as London's first self-governing orchestra and has been the resident orchestra at the Barbican since 1982.

Performer Biography

Valery Gergiev, the conductor on this album, holds multiple principal conductor roles, including with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

Composition History

Debussy's ballet Jeux was premiered by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in May 1913, just two weeks before the groundbreaking premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.