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Notes
Released in the year of Claude Debussy’s death centenary, this album demonstrates the exceptional harmonic and coloristic richness of his music. The centrepiece of the album is ‘La Mer’ (1903-1905), a musical realization of the composer’s “sincere devotion to the sea” that revolutionized orchestral composition in the early twentieth-century. Ibéria takes the listener on a trip to Spain, whereas the ‘Six Épigraphes antiques’ (1914), here performed in the orchestration of Rudolf Escher, evoke ancient Greece and Egypt. The biggest novelty on this album is Colin Matthews’ new, lush orchestration of ‘Images. Book 1’ (1901-1905), one of Debussy’s most-cherished piano works. With this Debussy collection, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and its Music Director Gustavo Gimeno continue their acclaimed PENTATONE series of composer portraits that already featured monographs of Shostakovich, Bruckner, Ravel, Mahler and Stravinsky.
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Reviews
Nominee in Symphonic Music award category
ICMA Award 2020
“… Listeners can now sample a wide range of choice in the medium [SACD] for the Debussy pieces collected here — except for one, and that alone will make it a collectors’ item for aficionados of the composer. That piece is Colin Matthews exquisite orchestration of Debussy’s piano Images, in which (as so often before), Matthews is the perfect conduit from keyboard to orchestra.”
Barry Forshaw – Classical CD Choice – 28 March 2019
**** (Excellent)
Jacques Bonnaure - Classica magazine (France) - March 2019
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