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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Debussy - Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 3
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet here offers the third volume in his series devoted to the complete works for piano 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 to these well-known works are several that are more rarely heard. Two such are La plus que lente,
which seems to look ahead to the Études of 1915, and Élégie. Roger Nichols describes the former as ‘one of his
most delightful pieces… the harmonic turns are particularly sophisticated and enchanting’. The Élégie was written
in 1915 following the composer’s move to the coast. The outbreak of the First World War had initially depressed
Debussy into a state of creative sterility but the move was to prove most productive. The Élégie was written for a
charity and, dedicated to Queen Alexandra, honours the role of women in wartime. It is now rarely performed but
Roger Nichols writes, ‘it is one of the composer’s most extraordinary works… and we are left wondering what on
earth Debussy would have written in the 1920s and beyond’.
Bavouzet’s previous two volumes have been very well received both critically and commercially. In a recent
review of volume two the LA Times wrote, ‘In what may turn out to be the greatest complete 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’. Of the same volume
International Record Review has noted, ‘I had the highest praise for Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s first volume of
Debussy, and the present disc is fully the equal of that one in terms of colour, refinement of touch, spontaneity and
technical finish… Bavouzet has written that his Debussy playing has been influenced by that of Gieseking,
Michelangeli and Richter. You may hear something of each of these pianists in his playing but more than that you
will hear his own distinctive and special voice’.
This series is a deeply personal project for Bavouzet who has been involved in all aspects of the recording process. “This third volume confirms Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's winning affinity for Debussy's music. Such familiar pieces as the Suite bergamasque, Deux Arabesques or Children's Corner come across with their colours luminous, their ideas voiced fluently and the moods atmospherically fixed.” The Telegraph, 31st May 2008 “Fiercely energised yet superfine, his performances are not for those with comfortable drawing-room notions of Debussy.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 “…this delightful disc places Debussy's two most modest cycles (Children's Corner and Suite bergamasque) within a broadly chronological sequence of pieces spanning the composer's career.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alain Planès (Steinway piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“A model of piano recording” (Daily Telegraph) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chill with Debussy
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Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Truls Mørk (cello), Katerina Karnéus (mezzo soprano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Hungarian Dances
Bartók: | Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 (arr. Székely for violin & piano) 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98 (extracts) Teasing Song, Sorrow, Song from Máramaros, Ruthenian Kolomeika, Arabian Song & Pizzicato Tom Eisner (violin II) | Brahms: | Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor arr. Joachim Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B flat arr. Joachim Hungarian Dance No. 7 in A major arr. Joachim Hymne zur Verherrlichung des grossen Joachim (Hymn in honour of the Great Joachim) Hungarian Dance No. 9 in E minor arr. Joachim | Debussy: | La plus que lente arr. Leon Rocques | Dohnányi: | Andante Rubato alla Zingaresca | Hartmann, A: | L’amour, valse bluette | Hubay: | 14 Scenes de la Czarda, Op. 32: No. 4. Hejre Kati (Hey, Katy) | Kreisler: | Marche miniature viennoise | Liszt: | Romance Oubliée Mephisto Waltz No. 1 arr. Milstein | Monti: | Csárdás | Scarlatescu: | Bagatelle | Vecsey, F: | Valse triste |
Philippe Graffin (violin) & Claire Désert (piano/piano luthéal) Philippe Graffin is the latest violinist to join ONYX, after several outstanding discs of rare French and English repertoire for labels such as Hyperion and Avie. This new recital brings together the mesmerising intensity of Gypsy violin playing with classical composers’ response to it. Released to coincide with a notable novel called Hungarian Dances by writer and journalist Jessica Duchen. She explains: “When I asked Philippe Graffin, a treasured friend and colleague, to check the manuscript of Hungarian Dances for violinistic errors, I little dreamed he’d respond by making this recording: a CD inspired by the novel. Yet the novel was partly inspired by a CD – Philippe and Claire’s beautiful recital ‘In the Shade of Forests’, [Avie Records, rave reviews worldwide] evoking the spirit of the archetypal wandering Gypsy violinist”. Philippe’s recital is loosely based around the book but is also designed to work as a programme in its own right with several pieces chosen only for the recording including rarities by such composers as Von Vecsey, Hubay, Scarlatescu and Arthur Hartmann. Claire Désert is well-known in France for several solo CDs for FNAC and other labels and here plays both piano and piano luthéal, the ‘prepared piano’ that Ravel had made for Tzigane in 1919 and which imitates the sound of a Hungarian cimbalom to striking effect in many of these pieces. | 
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| |  | Bridges To Beyond (Piano Music)
Debussy: | Nocturne Images Oubliees: Lent La plus que lente | Fauré: | 8 pièces brèves, Op. 84 : 5. Improvisation in C sharp minor | Granados: | Goyescas: Quejas ó La Maja y el Ruiseñor | Mompou: | Prélude No. 9 Prélude No. 6 Variations sur un theme de Chopin (No. 8) Secreto Impresiones intimas | Poulenc: | Nocturne No. 8 15 Improvisations, No. 13 in A minor 15 Improvisations, No. 7 in C major | Rachmaninov: | Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 | Satie: | Petite Ouverture à danser Danse de travers I, II & III | Scriabin: | Prelude, Op. 11 No. 16 in B flat minor Prelude, Op. 11 No. 12 in G sharp minor Prelude, Op. 11 No. 11 in B major Prelude, Op. 22 No. 3 in B minor Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1 | Szymanowski: | Prelude No. 1 , Op. 1 Andante ma non troppo Prelude No. 7 , Op. 1 Moderato | Toch: | Profiles, Op. 68, No. 3 |
Antoinette van Zabner (piano) The largely reflective works on this CD illustrate the changing attitudes in the works of composers around the period of the early 1900’s. A politically very sensitive and volatile time, music began to represent a more thoughtful and inward style of composition. This programme, compiled by Antoinette van Zabner, is both thought provoking and stimulating. |
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| |  | Amy Dickson - Smile
Amy Dickson (saxophone) & Catherine Milledge (piano) Debut solo recording for Sony BMG Masterworks by stunning young saxophonist Amy Dickson “Amy Dickson has an individual and unusual tone, luscious, silky-smooth, sultry and voluptuous by turns; her phrasing is beautifully finished, her control of dynamic infinitely subtle.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | The Great Pianists Volume 8 - Arthur Rubinstein
Albéniz: | El Albaicín Evocación (from Iberia, Book I) | Brahms: | Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2 Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79 No. 1 | Chopin: | Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Prelude No. 1, Op. 28 Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4 Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 10 Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21 Prelude No. 24, Op. 28 Polonaise No. 5 in F sharp minor, Op. 44 | Debussy: | L'isle joyeuse La plus que lente | Falla: | Ritual Fire Dance | Prokofiev: | Suggestion diabolique, Op. 4 No. 4 | Rimsky Korsakov: | Hymn to the Sun |
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) These recordings were made in 1992 from the original piano rolls and were recorded on a brand
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