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Children's Corner - Debussy Orchestrations / Talmi, Orchestre Symphonique De Quebec

Debussy / Orchestre Symphonique De Quebec / Talmi
Release Date: 11/15/2011 
Label:  Atma Classique   Catalog #: 2671  
Composer:  Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

Claude Debussy conveyed his skill as a brilliant colourist through his works for solo piano. So evocative are these pieces that many great conductors and composers have been inspired to arrange them to employ the full palette available to a symphony orchestra. The results are spirited, inventive scores which enrich the listener’s perception of the original — and in some cases, perhaps even surpass it. Conductor Yoav Talmi leads Canada’s oldest symphony orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2002.

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Read more /> DEBUSSY Children’s Corner. Clair de lune (2 orchestrations). La Soirée dans Grenade. Petite Suite. 6 Épigraphes antiques . Sarabande. Danse • Yoav Talmi, cond; Quebec SO • ATMA ACD2 2671 (73:00)


I suppose there can never be enough good recordings of anything but, given the number of perfectly good recordings of this particular repertory, my initial reaction to this Atma CD was something to the effect of “Why this?” By the time I finished Children’s Corner after comparing it with such competition as I could muster, my interest was aroused and it didn’t diminish as I gradually made my way through the CD and compared it with other such collections. The producer favors a more aggressive mike placement than many others but gets lots of relevant detail without losing the sense of the hall, and Yoav Talmi and his players seem tuned in to the music’s sentiment without bathing in it. One might prefer, say, Ansermet’s refinement in his wispy Épigraphes antiques orchestration or Stokowski’s own recording of his Clair de lune transcription … but not by much, I would guess, and I’m quite pleased that Talmi not only acknowledges the existence of the Stokowski (along with the “standard” Caplet edition) but gives it a performance worthy of the transcriber himself. I might have preferred that such sensitivity had been expended on some less familiar music, but anyone who’s looking for transcriptions of Debussy’s piano music won’t go wrong here.


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Works on This Recording

1.
Children's Corner by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1906-1908; France 
2.
Epigraphes antiques (6) by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1914; France 
3.
Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement, Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1890/1905; France 
4.
Images oubliées: no 2, Sarabande by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1894; France 
5.
Tarentelle styrienne "Danse" by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: circa 1890; France 
6.
Estampes (3) for Piano: no 2, La soirée dans Grenade by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1903; France 
7.
Petite suite for Piano 4 hands by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1886-1889; France 
8.
Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement, Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Yoav Talmi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1890/1905; France 

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review:  ( 1 Customer Review )
 In appreciation--- June 20, 2013 By Benjamin L. (Beverly Hills, CA) See All My Reviews "Children’s Corner, Clair de Lune---like a message of friendship from a warm past, like a generous present from above--- Thank you, Claude Debussy. Thank you, Yoav Talmi." Report Abuse
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