Debussy / Galera - Prelude - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Founded in November 1918 by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and a few of his confidants, the Association for Private Musical Performances constituted perhaps the most progressive and most intensive opportunity for a select Viennese musical circle to familiarize themselves with contemporary and the latest works of the international composers' scene in the immediate aftermath of the First World War and hence at the time of a dearth of a cultural spirit of optimism and innovation. Schoenberg had a close personal tie with many of the composers performed at the association concerts, as in the case of Zemlinsky. The association became a nursery for the entire modern music from Richard Strauss and Debussy to Webern, as far as the instrumentation of the works allowed. This explores some of the chamber music works that came out of that association, including pieces by Bruckner, Mahler, Webern, and Schoenberg himself, among others. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 7 in E Major 2. Symphonie No. 4 in G Major 3. Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen 4. Das Lied Von Der Erde 5. Kindertotenlieder 6. Violinkonzert = Violin Concerto 7. Altenberg Lieder 8. Violin Concerto in a Major, Op. 101 9. Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 10. Six Songs for Voice and Orchestra, Op. 8 11. Six Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6 12. Prélude À L'après-Midi D'un Faune 13. Romantic Suite, Op. 125 14. Six Songs, Op. 13 InchMaeterlinck-LiederInch 15. Berceuse Élégiaque, Op. 42 16. The Waltz Arrangements

Debussy / Gieseking - Preludes Images [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/15/2000

The pianist Sandro Baldi presents these seminal piano works of Debussy and the includes two different periods in Debussy's development. The first more youthful and still imbued with a certain romanticism in some aspects, and then from the peak of his maturity as Debussy reached the apex of his artistic and compositional mastery. Thus this presents a rare occasion for a full immersion in Debussy, observed from a double angle that is fascinating in itself, but also revealing how his arc of his genius. Gifted from his early years with a preternatural and keen understanding of writing for the piano, this CD displays Debussy's prodigious gifts in full display as rendered by Baldi's sensitive playing.