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Offline boomtralala

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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

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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

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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)
 

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