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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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Reviewing a performance by Trpceski of Debussy’s Images (Book I), The Seattle Times wrote earlier this year “Here is a pianist who really gets to the heart of the Impressionist style, one who can make the textures shimmer.” The Toronto Star said (of Images Book II): “he turned ordinary notes into gently shimmering cascades of colour, finally building up to the rollicking, occasionally jazzy ‘Poissons d’or.’ His playing was so perfect that it took an effort to remember to breathe while listening.” “Following his fire-eating Chopin recital, Simon Trpceski retreats into Debussy's more withdrawn poetry and fantasy with an ease and delicacy that suggest, once more, a wholly exceptional artist.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | 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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Paquita Madriguera Segovia (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | York Bowen - The complete 78rpm Recordings
Bach, J S: | Capriccio from Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV826 recorded 1923? | Beethoven: | Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 recorded 1925 Aeolian Orchestra, Stanley Chapple Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia' (Andante) recorded 1923? Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78 recorded 1927 | Bowen: | Suite No. 2, Op. 30: Finale ‘A Romp’ recorded 1925 The Way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op. 76 recorded 1925 Arabesque, Op. 20, No. 1 recorded 1925 Fragments from Hans Andersen, Op. 58 recorded 1926 (with spoken introductions) | Brahms: | Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2 recorded 1925 | Chopin: | Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 recorded 1925 Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 recorded 1926 Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1 recorded 1926 Polonaise No. 1 in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 recorded 1926 Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor recorded 1927 Prelude No. 23 recorded 1927 Prelude No. 20 in C minor, Op. 28 No. 20 recorded 1927 Prelude in G major, Op. 28 No. 3 recorded 1927 | Cochrane: | Le Ruisseau recorded 1925 | Debussy: | Estampe No. 3 - Jardins sous la pluie recorded 1925 Arabesque No. 2 recorded 1926 | Gardiner: | London Bridge from Five Pieces recorded 1926 Gavotte from Five Pieces recorded 1926 | Liszt: | Eglogue from Années de pèlerinage - année 1: Suisse, S160 recorded 1925 | Mendelssohn: | Scherzo in E minor, Op. 16 No. 2 released January 1915 | Moscheles: | Etude, Op. 70 No. 5 recorded 1925 | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 in G minor recorded 1926 Polichinelle, Op. 3, No. 4 recorded 1925 | Schumann: | Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 (Allegro) recorded 1926 | Schütt: | Etude Mignonne in D major, Op. 16, No. 1 released January 1915 |
In recent years York Bowen, the composer, has enjoyed a spectacular revival, but until now his talents as pianist (barring a late recording of his own music for Lyrita) have not been heard since the days of 78s. At the height of his success, in the first decades of the 20th century, Bowen was as much known as pianist as composer and frequently performed at the Proms amongst other things. His first recording, a very rare disc on the Marathon label, was released in 1915, but the bulk of his work was done for Vocalion; after they went bankrupt in 1927 he appears to have made no further 78s. Pride of place must go to Bowen’s Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto. This was the very first recording of the work and its neglect has been due to the fact that it was one of the last recordings to be made under the old acoustic process which was superseded the year the work was issued. Bowen’s pianism is extremely fluent and he plays his own cadenzas! Through all the featured works we hear a pianist who plays in the ‘grand manner’ and that, and his preference for romantic repertoire, reveal him as somewhat atypical of the English pianist of his time. Perhaps his nickname ‘the English Rachmaninov’ did indeed hit the nail on the head. | 
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| |  | Debussy - Impressions
Although he never envisioned a career as a virtuoso performer, Debussy was a highly
accomplished pianist having studied at the Paris Conservatoire from the age of 10. His piano
pieces are some of the most sublime in the repertoire and the collection on this release are some
of his most popular.
Japanese pianist Momo Kodama studied with Murray Perahia and Andreas Schiff. These are
fine and accomplished performances form this young and extremely talented artiste. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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"The interpretation is a delight all the way through" Classic FM Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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