Debussy - D'un cahier d'esquisses

Bavouzet's strengths…to the fore, with glowing colours in the opening Ballade and Valse romantique, followed by sparkling elegance in the Danse. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Nelson Freire, the legendary Brazilian pianist and longtime musical partner of Martha Argerich, turns to Debussy. In the accompanying notes he confesses to a special empathy for Debussy and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

here Osborne’s phrasing and pacing is pure and poetic, as well as raptly atmospheric in ‘The Snow is Dancing’ and it finishes with a deliciously louche cake-walk. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is an essential set for lovers of piano playing. The vast majority of the transfers are superior to anything that has been issued previously, there are a number of recordings appearing... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

Every bar of these performances confirms Ogawa as a most elegant, scrupulously sensitive interpreter of 'music like a dream from which one draws away the veil' (Debussy). She achieves a magical... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Exhaustive, the sum of the crème de la crème of the discography...THE Debussy box set to have…No richer panorama exists for the melodies (the complete EMI recordings alongside never-before-released... — Diapason More…