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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862-1918)
1.
Nocturne (1892)
5:44
pour piano
Lent - Animez peu à peu - A tempo - En retenant -
Suite bergamasque (1890/1905)
16:24
2.
Prélude. Moderato (tempo rubato)
3:44
3.
Menuet. Andantino
4:06
4.
Clair de Lune. Andante très expressif - Tempo rubato -
4:50
5.
Passepied. Allegretto ma non troppo - [ ] - Tempo I
3:43
6.
Danse bohémienne (1880)
2:03
Allegro - Più mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso
Deux Arabesques (1890-91)
7:18
piano solo
7.
Première Arabesque. Andantino con moto - Poco mosso -
4:04
8.
Deuxième Arabesque. Allegretto scherzando - Meno mosso -
3:13
9.
Rêverie (c. 1890)
4:22
pour le piano
Andantino sans lenteur - [ ] - Tempo I
10.
Mazurka (c. 1890)
3:02
pour le piano
Scherzando (Assez animé) - Tempo rubato - A tempo I -
Children's Corner (1906-08)
15:44
À ma chère petite Chouchou avec les tendres excuses de son Père pour ce qui va suivre
11.
I
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum. Modérément animé - [ ] -
2:06
12.
II
Jumbo's Lullaby. Assez modéré - Un peu plus mouvementé -
3:08
13.
III
Serenade for the Doll. Allegretto ma non troppo -
2:24
14.
IV
The snow is dancing. Modérément animé
2:29
15.
V
The little Shepherd. Très modéré
2:23
16.
VI
Golliwogg's cake walk. Allegro giusto - Un peu moins vite -
3:11
17.
Hommage à Haydn (1909)
2:26
Pièce écrite pour le centenaire de Haydn
pour piano
Mouvement de Valse lente - Vif - Peu à peu animé -
18.
Morceau de concours (1904)
0:58
pour piano
Assez animé et très rythmé
19.
La plus que lent (1910)
4:40
Valse
piano solo
Lent (Molto rubato con morbidezza) - Animé un peu -
20.
The little Nigar (1909)
1:14
(Cake Walk)
Allegro giusto
21.
Page d'Album (1915)
1:09
(Pour l'œuvre du 'Vêtement du Blessé')
piano solo
Modéré - Un peu animé - Rubato - Mouvement retenu -
22.
Berceuse héroïque (1914)
4:18
pour rendre Hommage à S.M. le Roi Albert I de Belgique et è ses Soldats
Modéré (sans lenteur) - [ ] - En animant et en augmentant -
23.
Élégie (1915)
2:28
pour piano
Lent et douloureux - Un poco mosso - Poco rallentando -
71:54
Solo:Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
27-29 February 2008
Notes
DEBUSSY: PIANO WORKS, VOLUME 3
This is the third volume in Bavouzet’s complete series of the piano works by Debussy. The music now moves to a more playful strand in Debussy’s compositional career, with generally shorter pieces of the salon genre, including the two famous collections Children’s Corner and Suite bergamasque. In addition there are several rarities, including La plus que lente and Élégie. The previous two volumes have been very well received both critically and commercially. The LA Times wrote of Volume 2, ‘In what may turn out to be the greatest completed recorded survey of the composer’s piano music yet, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet… plays with such bracing clarity that hearing the early Romantic pieces, one feels like jumping into an icy pond after an hour in the sauna’.
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Reviews
Sound: 4.5/5 (Excellent)
Diapason magazine - 2008
Choc de l’année 2008Monde de la Musique Magazine
Review for the Debussy series CHAN 10421, 10467, 10443, 10497 & 10545
"Debussy playing does not come any better than this, and anyone starting to collect this excellent Chandos series need not really look any further. The CDs are available separately each in turn was given a ’Gramophone Award"
The Penguin Guide – 1000 Greatest Classical Recordings 2011-12
"… this penultimate volume featuring a masterly account of Suite Bergamasque and one of the finest Children’s Corners ever recorded "
The Pianist
Best Instrumental Recording 2009
"He has also reached his third offering and this delightful disc places Debussy’s two most modest cycles within a broadly chronological sequence of pieces spanning the composer’s career. As such it would make an excellent introduction both to the essentials of Debussy’s piano writing and the extraordinary evolution in style. Bavouzet is an engaging guide on this journey."
BBC Music Magazine
"Regardless of style or pianistic requirements, Bavouzet is equally in charge of all dimensions of Debussy’s music. His acute sense of proportion covers both the rhythmic and dynamic spheres; in the Arabesque No. 1, for example, his subtle rubato shapes the flow of the piece most affectionately without ever becoming mannered. He adopts a different approach for the early danse bohémienne and Mazurka, delivering both with crisp vitality and winsome charm."
International Record Review
"Popular Debussy rubs shoulders with the unfamiliar in refined, intimate and richly rewarding readings."
Classic FM Magazine
"... This third volume confirms Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s winning affinity for Debussy’s music."
The Telegraph
Once more he turns the conventional notions of ‘impressionism’ topsy-turvy, cleansing Debussy of years of dust and accretion and recreating him in every bar in a sparkling and pristine light. Fiercely energised yet superfine, his performances are not for those woth comfortable drawing-room notions of Debussy, and rarely in my experience has a pianist so faultlessly or precisely achieved his aims.
Gramophone magazine
"One would expect a work like Claire de Lune to be just about perfect in the hands of such a skilled and sensitive pianist, but for him to give the same attention to the other three less familiar movements of the Suite Bergamasque places this performance among the best one could ever hope for. The same holds true for Children’s Corner, most definitely on a par with my favourite old Michelangeli recording ..."
American Record Guide
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