Claude Debussy: Trois Nocturnes • Jeux (Poème Dansé) - Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1979)
Claude Debussy: Trois Nocturnes • Jeux (Poème Dansé) - Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
XLD | FLAC (tracks) | No Log/cue-sheet | Coverart Embedded & High-def JPEG | ~183 Mb
Classical | ADD | Philips (1979)
The playing time of this disc amounts to very little more than 40 minutes. However this recording deserves a 5-star rating. A quarter of a century or so ago, this orchestral concert of Debussy won awards from The Gramophone not just in the orchestral category but for the quality of the recording in addition, and it would stand a fair chance of getting similar awards even today.
Haitink and his Amsterdam forces pull off something approaching perfection, and if one had to demonstrate to any novice among music-lovers why Debussy is such a great composer, these recordings might be best to use to demonstrate, certainly at the moment when they are fresh in my memory. Everything seems to be just right - tempi, tone-quality, orchestral refinement, rubato, the colour-mixing in this very complex and subtle orchestral palette, the choral tone, the balance among the orchestral and vocal forces, the expressive cantabile of the voices - everything. Performance and recording seem to me to be a single unity here, not separate aspects to be separately assessed, and in this music more than in most that is a basic requirement. A must hear recording!
Tracklist:
1. Trois Nocturnes - 1. Nuages
2. Trois Nocturnes - 2. Fêtes
3. Trois Nocturnes - 3. Sirènes
4. Jeux (Poème Dansé)
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