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Topic: Who is the best Debussy interpreter? (Read 451 times)
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chong777
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I do not know many Debussy interpreters. Who plays Debussy's piano music best?
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arensky
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Michelangeli.
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pianistimo
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Aren't there some recordings of Debussy playing Debussy. Wasn't one of Debussy's students a sort of 'passer on of secrets.' I'm trying to think of his/her name. I think it was a her. And, she taught at the Paris Conservatory.
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Nightscape
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Michelangeli lacks spontaneity - sometimes it sparkles with brilliance but other times it sounds overly rehearsed. Michelangeli is best in certain pieces. I like Laurent-Aimard for the Etudes, and the newer recording of the complete works by Gordon Fergus-Thompson is really amazing too (especially if you like some of the more obscure piano pieces).
Many will recommend Walter Gieseking as well, and you may like him but personally his interpretations do not sit well with me. You also have to contend with terrible audio quality, which really ruins the mood for me - I would much rather hear Debussy played on the beautiful and sonorous tones of a piano and not a piece of sheet metal placed in an ajoining room with the door closed and static playing.
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nyonyo
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Many will recommend Walter Gieseking as well, and you may like him but personally his interpretations do not sit well with me.
I agree with you. His interpretation can be correct if many piano experts said so, but his playing just does not sound beautiful to me..... |
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counterpoint
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Michel Beroff
Yuri Egorov
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It's the movement that makes the sound.
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dnephi
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Gieseking without a doubt for me.
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For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert. (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)
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gymnopedist
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I love Richters recording of ...le vent dans le plaine, so atmospheric. Michelangeli is nice as well, though i have to agree about the occasional over-rehearsed feeling... Debussys widow said that Gieseking was the pianist whose style of playing most resembled her husbands, and i think that there are real gems among his recordings, in spite of the recording quality.
Too bad Debussys daughter died young, Marguerite Long (i think) said she had learned quite a few things from her dad.
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retrouvailles
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Debussy is probably the best I have heard. His etudes, preludes, and images are sublime.
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jakev2.0
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Michelangeli, definitely.
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Phillipe Entremont.
No question.
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