Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist (The Caswell Collection, Vol. 1)

Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist (The Caswell Collection, Vol. 1)

Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist (The Caswell Collection, Vol. 1)
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Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Mary Garden
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Pierian
Soundtracks:
  1. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: Danseuses de Delphes
  2. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: La cathédrale engloutie
  3. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: La danse de Puck
  4. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: Minstrels
  5. Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117: Le vent dans la plaine
  6. La plus que lente, waltz for piano (or orchestra), L. 121
  7. Estampes, for piano, L. 100: La soirées dans Grenade
  8. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
  9. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: Jimbo's Lullaby
  10. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: Serenade for the Doll
  11. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: The Snow is Dancing
  12. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: The Little Shepherd
  13. Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113: Golliwog's Cake Walk
  14. D'un cahier d'esquisses, for piano, L. 99
  15. Pelléas et Mélisande, opera in 5 acts, L. 88: Mes longs cheveux
  16. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: Green
  17. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: L'ombre des Arbres
  18. Ariettes oubliées (6), song cycle for voice & piano, L. 60: Il pleure dans mon coeur

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Free Music Review: Debussy Discovered
Hit: 5 Stars

I had known that Debussy had performed a few piano rolls before he died, shortly before the victory against the German's during World War One. It was sad to know that he passed before the knowledge of that inevitable victory for his country.
Piano rolls was the only source close to any composers treatment of actual performances of their own compositions. The special thing about piano rolls over transcriptions is that it can be applied to new and current technology so that it sounds like it was recorded yesterday on the finest concert grand piano.
There is a new CD of Debussy's entire piano roll performances, similar to this. But this CD is slightly superior in sound quality in that the microphone placement is slightly closer to the soundboard, making the overall sound up close and a little more intimate that the current release, which almost has the sound of it being in a high school auditorium. The fault here is that you don't really hear the richness of the piano as apposed to the distant and interfering acoustics of wherever the recording was made.
There's a new technology out only in the past few years where you can now take a scratchy, old and even worn recorded disc and transfer that information into a computer software and then take the next step and translate that information onto what can only be described as a brand new piano roll that can be applied to whatever grand piano the producer of this technology wants. Thus old recordings of solo piano performances can sound absolutely brand new. This was recently done with an Art Tatum performance from 1948 that was released originally as an old and worn record. Now it sounds brand spanking new as if Art was around today, around over a half century after his death. What's more amazing about this technology is that the next step may be to actually take a multiple instrumental recording, anylize and break down the frequencies of the various instruments and re-mix them into new and even stereophonic recordings. It would be nice to see this in my lifetime and I hope it happens. I'm 56.
Debussy is my favorite classical composer and very underated compared to the other masters like Bach,, Beethoven, Mozart and the other more accepted standard artists. Someday he'll get his due. Fortunately for now we have these recordings of the piano rolls. Invaluable.
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