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20th Century String Quartets - Debussy, Ravel, Toldra, Zemlinsky / Cuarteto Casals

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-07-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10; Alexander von Zemlinsky: Quartet for Strings no 2, Op. 15; Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major; Eduardo Toldrá: Vistes al mar, f...

This double album brings together two recordings from 2004 and 2006 in which the Cuarteto Casals opportunely demonstrated its virtuosity and the links between figures...continue...
Recording information: Estudio "L'Auditorium" de Anacrusi s.l., Jafre, Girona....continue...

Claude Debussy: Sonate for flute, alto & harp; Syrinx; Chansons de Bilitis / Gérard Caussé, alto; Isabelle Moretti, harp; Ariane Jacob, piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-07-10

Works: Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Syrinx; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Chansons de Bilitis, incidental music for narrator, 2 flutes, 2 harps & celesta, L. 96
Performers: Bernold, Philippe; Causse, Gerard [Viola]; Dufour, Mathieu; Jacob, Ariane; Lorenzini, Germaine; Moretti, Isabelle

Stéphane Mallarmé was very impressed by the way in which Debussy had expanded on the moods of his poem, L'Après-midi d'un faune. The flute is...continue...
Recording information: 09/1997....continue...

Voyage en France / Alexandre Tharaud, Philippe Bernold, Ronald Van Spaendonck

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-08-09

Works: Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Jeux d'eau; Menuet, for piano in C sharp minor; Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Menuet antique; Sérénad...
Performers: Bernold, Philippe; Spaendonck, Ronald Van; Tharaud, Alexandre

French Music for Clarinet and Piano

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-01-11

Works: Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; Claude Debussy: Petite pièce, for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 120; Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra; Darius Milhaud: S...
Performers: Spaendonck, Ronald Van; Tharaud, Alexandre

Recording information: Radio France (04/1996)....continue...

Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2010-09-14

Works: Claude Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10; Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit, for string quartet; Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major

Unlike Beethoven and Bartok, both fascinated by the string quartet throughout their creative life, most French composers were cautious in their approach to a formation...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studio Berlin (10/2009)....continue...

13th Van Cliburn Competition - Silver Medal

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2009-10-13

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Keyboard no 58 in C major, H 16 no 48; Samuel Barber: Sonata for Piano in E flat minor, Op. 26; Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 1; Leopold Godowsky: Symphonic metam...
Performers: Son, Yeol-Eum

Recording information: Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, Texas (05/22/2009-06/07/2009)....continue...

Recital at Ravinia - Brahms, Handel, Debussy, Mozart, etc / Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Peter Serkin, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2009-02-10

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (8) for voice & piano, Op. 57; Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33; Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 46; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Giulio Cesare; Claude Debussy: Chansons (...
Performers: Hunt Lieberson, Lorraine; Minter, Drew [Counter Tenor Vocals]; Serkin, Peter [Piano]

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson displays her own special sense of drama in a program on the theme of love, ranging over several centuries and covering every...continue...

Debussy, Poulenc: Cello Sonatas / Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2008-10-14

Works: Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano; La plus que lente; Nocturne and Scherzo for Cello and Piano; Intermezzo for cello & orchestra (or piano), L. 27; Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Cello and Pian...
Performers: Queyras, Jean-Guihen; Tharaud, Alexandre

Debussy's Cello Sonata was written in 1915 and is typical of his style in its use of modes, whole-tone and pentatonic scales. It also utilizes...continue...

Debussy: Oeuvres pour deux pianos, etc / Helffer, Austbö

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2008-07-08

Works: Claude Debussy: En blanc et noir; Lindaraja; Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire; Petite suite for Piano 4 hands; Epigraphes antiques (6)
Performers: Austbo, Hakon; Heiffer, Claude

Spencer Myer Plays Debussy, Kohs, Copland and Busoni

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2007-11-13

Works: Ellis Kohs: Variations on L'Homme Armé; Aaron Copland: Piano Variations; Ferruccio Busoni: Variationen und Fuge über das Prelude Op. 28/20 von Frederic Chopin in C minor, for piano, Op. 22,...
Performers: Myer, Spencer

Rameau: Nouvelles Suites; Debussy / Alexandre Tharaud

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2002-02-01

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin; Claude Debussy: Hommage à Rameau, for piano, L. 110/2
Performers: Tharaud, Alexandre

Until very recently, pianists no longer dared play the French harpsichord repertoire; the movement by "authentic" performances on period instruments argued that this music was...continue...