Debussy: Orchestral Music
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Performer: George PietersonComposer: Claude Debussy
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Conductor: Eduard Van Beinum
Performer: Vera Badings
Orchestra: Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-02-15
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Berceuse heroique
- Images: Gigues
- Images: Iberia: Par les rues et par les chemins
- Images: Iberia: Les perfums de la nuit
- Images: Iberia: Le matin d'un jour fe fete
- Images: Rondes de printemps
- Jeux: Poeme Danse
- Marche ecossaise
- Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Nocturnes: Nuages
- Nocturnes: Fetes
- Nocturnes: Sirenes
- La Mer: De l'aube a midi sur la mer
- La Mer: Jeux de vagues
- La Mer: Dialogue du vent et de la mer
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Dances For Harp And Strings: Danse sacree
- Dances For Harp And Strings: Danse profane
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Free Music Review: Fantastic set
Hit: 5 Stars
This set is wonderful for anyone who is looking to get acquainted with Debussy, as well as anyone looking for new interpretations of his famous orchestral work. This 2 disk contains my favorite rendering of the majestic "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", as well as my favorite recording of the three Nocturnes and "Images". These three pieces are improved by the warm and luminous, yet vague ("impressionistic") sound of this recording.
The harp dances sound wonderful. So does the clarinet rhapsodie. The soloist has wonderful tone.
Elsewhere, the audio quality is my only complaint about this set - "La Mer", being as it is a highly dense, orchestrated piece of work, would benefit from added clarity and higher audio fidelity, but the version here is still very good. The other piece that suffers from the overly reverberant, slightly muddy sound is "Berceuse Heroique", an amazing and powerful shorter piece, summarizing whole years of life in a blur of 5 minutes... here, unfortunately, the louder moments turn into incoherent chaos.
All of the playing is fantastic, the intonation is great... I've never heard this music so expressive.
Highly recommended for definitive versions of "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", "Nocturnes" and "Images". Everything else is good as well. 4.5 stars.
Debussy: Orchestral Music Poster
Bernard Haitink's recordings of the Nocturnes and Jeux were hailed as among the finest available when initially issued. That LP provided rather short measure. Now you can get all of Debussy's most important orchestral music on two CDs for the price of one, and if the remaining performances don't quite reach the exalted level of the Nocturnes and Jeux, they come so close as to make no difference. Haitink was not a very assertive conductor (and he's gotten less so with age), but he was fortunate to have one of the world's best orchestras at the tip of his baton, and their recordings were a true collaborative effort. Their approach works particularly well for Debussy. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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