Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!

Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more

Topic: Debussy plays Debussy - fake?  (Read 3150 times)

Offline boomtralala

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 3
Debussy plays Debussy - fake?
on: January 16, 2014, 10:42:16 AM
Hello everyone, hope I'm at the right place  :-[

I've recently bought this album, it's titled "Claude Debussy Plays His Finest Works"
I have a feeling that this might be some kind of fake performance - can anyone please confirm that these recordings were in fact played by him?

Link: https://goo.gl/aoE4Az

Big thanks,
BT

Offline liszt1022

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 659
Re: Debussy plays Debussy - fake?
Reply #1 on: January 18, 2014, 04:49:09 PM
I have a similar CD of Ravel. They's based off piano rolls, not acoustic recordings, but yes, they sat down and played them.

Offline boomtralala

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 3
Re: Debussy plays Debussy - fake?
Reply #2 on: January 19, 2014, 09:36:42 AM
Thank you, now it makes more sense.
 
I'm guessing (hoping) the machine that plays these rolls does a fair job in terms of accuracy, or maybe the lack of accuracy compensate for the fact that the recordings were played by a machine - either way it sounds pretty good to me.

Thanks again!
 8)
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert