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Debussy: The Complete Works For Piano | 
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| Creators: Claude Debussy, Kurt Schroder, Frankfurt Hessischen Rundfunks Orchestra, Walter Gieseking
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $43.98
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 88624
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.9
MPN: 65855
UPC: 724356585522
EAN: 0724356585522
ASIN: B000002S6Z
Release Date: January 21, 1997
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | No. 1, "Danseuses de Delphes" | | • | No. 2, "Voiles" | | • | No. 3, "Le vent dans la plaine" | | • | No. 4, "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" (Baudelaire) | | • | No. 5, "Les collines d'Anacapri" | | • | No. 6, "Des pas sur la neige" | | • | No. 7, "Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest" | | • | No. 8, "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (Girl With the Flaxen Hair) | | • | No. 9, "La serenade interrompue" | | • | No. 10, "La cathedrale engloutie" (The Sunken Cathedral) | | • | No. 11, "La danse de Puck" | | • | No. 12, "Minstrels" | | • | No. 1, "Brouillards" | | • | No. 2, "Feuilles mortes" | | • | No. 3, "La Puerta del Vino" | | • | No. 4, "Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses" | | • | No. 5, "Bruyeres" | | • | No. 6, "General Lavine - eccentric" | | • | No. 7, "La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune" | | • | No. 8, "Ondine" | | • | No. 9, "Hommage a S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C" (inspired by Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pi | | • | No. 10, "Canope" | | • | No. 11, "Les tierces alternees" | | • | No. 12, "Feux d'artifice" |
Disc 2
| • | No. 1, Prelude | | • | No. 2, Sarabande | | • | No. 3, Toccata | | • | No. 1, "Pagodes" | | • | No. 2, "La soiree dans Grenade" | | • | No. 3, "Jardins sous la pluie" | | • | No. 1, "Reflets dans l'eau" | | • | No. 2, "Hommage a Rameau" | | • | No. 3, "Mouvement" | | • | No. 1, "Cloches a travers les feuilles" | | • | No. 2, "Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut" | | • | No. 3, "Poissons d'or" (Goldfish) | | • | No. 1, "Docteur Gradus ad Parnassum" | | • | No. 2, "Bercreuse des elephants" (Jumbo's Lullaby) | | • | No. 3, "Serenade a la poupee" (Serenade for the Doll) | | • | No. 4, "La neige danse" (The Snow is Dancing) | | • | No. 5, "Le petit berger" (The Little Shepherd) | | • | No. 6, "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" |
Disc 3
| • | No. 1, "Pour les cinq doigts" (after Czerny) | | • | No. 2, "Pour les tierces" | | • | No. 3, "Pour les quartes" | | • | No. 4, "Pour les sixtes" | | • | No. 5, "Pour les octaves" | | • | No. 6, "Pour les huit doigts" | | • | No. 7, "Pour les degres chromatiques" | | • | No. 8, "Pour les agrements" | | • | No. 9, "Pour les notes repetees" | | • | No. 10, "Pour les sonorites opposees" | | • | No. 11, "Pour les arpeges composes" II | | • | No. 12, "Pour les accords" |
Disc 4
| • | No. 1, "Prelude" | | • | No. 2, "Menuet" | | • | No. 3, "Clair de lune" | | • | No. 4, "Passepied" | | • | No. 1 in E major | | • | No. 2 in G major | | • | I. Andante - Allegro | | • | II. Lento e molto espressivo | | • | III. Allegro molto |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
These classic performances belong in the collection of anyone who cares about Debussy's piano music. Walter Gieseking's career was a troubled one--his pandering to the Nazi party cast a shadow over his last years, but the greatest irony of all was that this German nationalist turned out to be the greatest exponent of French music of his era. His Debussy playing marries an effortlessly subtle control of the keyboard to a real sense of fantasy. The music truly shimmers in his hands, and despite the limited range of the mono recording, the ear quickly adjusts. This is, in short, one of those classic recordings that critics and music lovers have enjoyed for nearly 50 years. So should you. --David Hurwitz
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| Customer Reviews:
 Happy to be the first 1 star. July 14, 2007
Michael Tillman (Dallas TX)
0 out of 23 found this review helpful
I should probably qualify my distate for these albums by saying that, like many piano players I don't particularly care for, the playing is not bad, is in fact even fine, but I can't stand the style; the recording quality itself was only a minor issue for me, as sometimes I like the sound of an older recording, it gives it more weight, more dream quality.
I bought this set about 10 years ago, for about $60, which at the time was an exorbitant amount (being a broke college student). I knew and loved many of Debussy's pieces, and liked none of them here. I was so dissappointed that I didn't buy another classical cd for about 9 years, the next actually being the BCO's awesome recording of Suk's Asreel Symphony.
I now own Thibaudet's Debussy, and while I'm stile not completely satisfied there, that set goes up from the 1 star here to 3 stars, and is enjoyable enough that I don't mind having spent the money.
This set, however, will forever mark itself in my mind as the archnemesis of that other iconic Purple album - Jean Francois Paillard's 'The Pachelbel Canon', which is the only one to own (well, the second one to own - the ultimate recording being on the disc with the two Fasch trumpet concertos).
 Murky March 31, 2007
EGAG (Los Angeles, CA USA)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the reviewers complaining about the sound quality on these CD's. I first discovered Debussy's piano music through these recordings when I was left my grandfather's record collection and I was obsessed. I bought this hoping to get back that vinyl magic but this is a murky compressed sounding thing, with none of the charm it should have. Boo.
 Debussy and Gieseking January 9, 2007
B. J. Stevenson (U K)
Historical 1950s recordings that demonstrate Gieseking's well attested shades of piano sound that are unique and outstanding.
EMI IS ATROCIOUS!!!!!!!!! October 28, 2006
W. Chan Lee (Seoul, Korea)
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
I despise EMI and for good reasons.
They have terrible recorded sound... from what I heard, i thought gieseking performed these pieces during the 1940s. I have remastered recordings from the 1920s and 30s that sound better than this!! But then again, EMI was never known for providing top-notch sonics.
Sheesh few years ago i purchased pablo casals on emi and it was simply horrible. i had to go get the one on testament (which is, by the way, superior to the Naxos remastering - believe it or not!).
I can't believe that much of gieseking's sound is lost and there's not much we can do about it!!!! emi will burn in hell... lol.
Hello Sky, Hello Trees April 3, 2006
Ganja Flaneur (The Land of Nod)
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
While there are those individuals, less sophisticated than my wonderful self, who are wont to dismiss Debussy as music only for those whose horticural inclinations run contrary to the course of gravity, I would have to venture that they don't know a good thing when they see one, and that to shun a composer merely because his fan base is given to lifting shirts would be nothing short of childish. After all, Debussy is really rather good, brilliant in fact, and if the good people at EMI should happen to let his liner notes be written by an inveterate pillow-biter, that does nothing to detract from his merits. "Bravo Debussy!" I say, and as I knock back another pastis enquire nonchalantly, "Anyone for tennis?"
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