Musicon / Debussy / Franck / Ravel / First Impressions: Franck, Debussy, Ravel chamber music – Decca Audiophile
Listening for the first time to this newcomer containing Franck and Debussy sonatas for violin and piano, the Debussy sonata for flute, viola and harp, and Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet. This is a Decca release (1988) of recordings made back ::More
Musicon / Debussy / Ravel / Debussy and Ravel Quartets – A note
Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel only wrote one quartet each. Both of these are extremely impressionistic in style, correlating chronologically with the work of Monet and his contemporaries in France, full of colour, and rich in bold gestures. Thirteen years younger than Debussy, Ravel wrote his ::More
Musicon / Debussy / Ravel / Giullini and Abbado: Debussy and Ravel Orchestral Works
Just listened to Giullini’s and Abbado’s view of some orchestral works by Debussy and Ravel – Daphnis and Chloe, La Mer, Bolero, Nocturnes, etc – with the Philharmonia Orchestra the first, and with the Concertgebouw the second. Overall: Nothing added to Martinon’s ::More
