Nicolas Horvath, the pianist on this album, is known for organizing unusually long concerts, sometimes lasting over twelve hours, such as his performance of Philip Glass's complete piano music.
Recording & Production
The recording was made in July 2019 at La Fabrique des Rêves Recording Studio in Misy-sur-Yonne, France, using a 1926 Steinway Model C piano.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Debussy often preferred inventing musical ideas to fully completing them, sometimes leaving detailed orchestration to others or his publisher, Jacques Durand.
Recording & Production
This album features world premiere recordings of piano versions of Debussy's works, many of which were unearthed and reconstructed by Robert Orledge.
Composer Biography
Claude Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only completed two of them entirely by himself: the opera Pelléas et Mélisande and the ballet Jeux.
Interpretation
The album includes works that are true piano pieces, piano reductions of orchestral scores, and piano solos that also exist in orchestral versions.
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