Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Suite Bergamasque: Prelude
2. Suite Bergamasque: Menuet
3. Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune
4. Suite Bergamasque: Passepied
5. Children's Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
6. Children's Corner: Jimbo's Lullaby
7. Children's Corner: Serenade For The Doll
8. Children's Corner: The Snow Is Dancing
9. Children's Corner: The Little Shepherd
10. Children's Corner: Golliwogg's Cakewalk
11. Images - Premier Livre: Reflets dans l'eau
12. Images - Premier Livre: Hommage a Rameau
13. Images - Premier Livre: Mouvement
14. Images - Deuxieme Livre: Cloches à travers les feuiles
15. Images - Deuxieme Livre: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
16. Images - Deuxieme Livre: Poissons d'or
17. Deux Arabesques: Andantino con moto
18. Deux Arabesques: Allegretto scherzando

Disc 2:

1. Préludes - Premier Livre: Danseuses de Delphe
2. Préludes - Premier Livre: Voiles
3. Préludes - Premier Livre: Le Vent dans la plaine
4. Préludes - Premier Livre: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
5. Préludes - Premier Livre: Les Collines d'Anacapri
6. Préludes - Premier Livre: Des pas sur la neige
7. Préludes - Premier Livre: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
8. Préludes - Premier Livre: La Fille aux cheveux de lin
9. Préludes - Premier Livre: La Sérénade interrompue
10. Préludes - Premier Livre: La Cathédrale engloutie
11. Préludes - Premier Livre: La Danse de Puck
12. Préludes - Premier Livre: Minstrels
13. Pour le piano: Prélude
14. Pour le piano: Sarabande
15. Pour le piano: Toccata
16. Estampes: Pagodes
17. Estampes: La Soirée dans Grenade
18. Estampes: Jardins sous la pluie
19. L'isle joyeuse
20. Rêverie

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56719 in Music
• Released on: 1994-10-11
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Superb!
After wavering for months as to which set of Debussy solo piano music to buy, I decided on this one and have not regretted it for a moment. The playing and recording are gorgeous. I was scared away from Giesking based on complaints about the quality of those recordings (and I don't really like mono). The Kocsis Images recording was tempting, but not as comprehensive as this one. I can't imagine a better (or less expensive) single recording of Debussy solo piano music.

of the 6 or 7 recordings
I've heard almost every major recording of Debussy's piano music. Pascal roge is the finest. the only one you need actually. Gieseking is of interest, but after carefully reviewing his recordings, Pascal Roge surpasses Gieseking in grasping the nuances and poetic form in Debussy. Gieseking served me very well until Roge's masterly recording came along.
Yes i've heard casadesus, not sure why his hype lives on to THIS DAY. Casadesus doesn't even hold his own agaisnt Gieseking, but the die hard Casadesus fans yet live on.

EDIT:
Today i pulled out this cd. There's no doubt this is the finest Debussy on record. I would give Pommier/Virgin label a very close 2nd place.
Other than these 2, there are no others which capture the most difficult piano music ever scored.
Though I place that of Ravel in a greater sense of importance, Debussy scored music of Eternal Beauty. IOW I can envision mankind 1000 yrs from now (near the end of the reign of Christ's kingdom of peace, when Satan is once again allowed freedom on earth) to considered as beautiful then as it is today. Much like the greek epic plays are considered great art in this post modern world. People in a 1000 yrs from now will say among themselves *you mean post modern mankind did not appreciate this music, less than 1% of the cultured population actually listened to Debussy's piano music? How dreadful a time on earth that must have been, how deaf they were back then!! What lack of sensitivity to beauty*
I never listen to Chopin, as the music pales in comparison with Debussy's *entriguing beauty in every note*
Paul Best
new Orleans
Aug 3,2008

One of the best Debussy performances I've heard.
There's obviously hundreds of options if you're just "looking for some Debussy", but keep in mind that the $3 CDs at Best Buy are $3 for a reason: They don't put any money into the production. It's near impossible to enjoy such amazing works as this if it's being recorded on a cheap microphone across the room from an amateur clanking away on an upright piano!

Great recording, great performances. I don't know what the other reviewer was talking about with the "volume problems", this CD is actually mastered a little bit louder than most of the genre.