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Claude Debussy - Claude Debussy, Album Debussy: Le compositeur et ses interprètes Claude Debussy and Ricardo Viñes pf, Ninon Vallin, Jane Bathori, Claire Croiza, Mary Garden, Hector Dufranne and Gérard Souzay voice, Camille Chevillard and Arturo Toscanini cond. Aeon 1215, 2012 (3 CDs: 227 minutes) - Claude Debussy, Clair de lune Natalie Dessay sop, Karine Deshayes mezzo-sop, Catherine Michel harp; Philippe Cassard pf, Le Jeune Chœur de Paris. Virgin Classics 7307692, 2012 (1 CD: 73 minutes) - Claude Debussy, The Claude Debussy Collection Sony 193179, 2012 (18 CDs: 1148 minutes) - Claude Debussy, The Debussy Edition Deutsche Grammophon 47900566 (18 CDs: 1,032 minutes). - Claude Debussy, Hommage à Debussy: Works for Piano Julia Dahlkvist, Chenyin Li, Juliana Steinbach and Amir Tebenikhin pf Genuin Classics 12230, 2012 (4 CDs: 302 minutes) - Claude Debussy, Piano Music, 4 volumes Roy Howat pf. Tall Poppies vol. 1: 94, 1997 (1 CD: 79 minutes); vol. 2: 123, 2000 (1 CD: 71 minutes); vol. 3: 164, 2002 (1 CD: 75 minutes); vol. 4: 165, 2003 (1 CD: 73 minutes).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2014

David Grayson
David Grayson*
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University of Minnesota
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , December 2014 , pp. 351 - 366
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References

1 The chapter ‘Early Recordings: Their Value as Evidence’, in Neal Peres Da Costa's Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), offers a thoughtful discussion of these and related issues.

2 Plaskin, Glenn, Horowitz: A Biography of Vladimir Horowitz (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983): 386 Google Scholar.

3 Monsaingeon, Bruno, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, trans. Stewart Spencer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001): 121 Google Scholar.

4 Garden, Mary and Biancolli, Louis, Mary Garden's Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951): 62 Google Scholar.

5 For insight into the song literature and its performance, I cannot recommend too highly Bergeron's, Katherine Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)Google Scholar.

6 Letter of 7 June 1917 to Robert Godet in Debussy Letters, selected and edited by François Lesure and Roger Nichols, translated by Roger Nichols (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987): 327.

7 The correct reading is given in Songs of Claude Debussy, Volume I: High Voice, edited by James R. Briscoe (Milwaukee: Hal Leonard, 1993): 88.

8 Letter of 1 September 1915 to Jacques Durand in Debussy Letters, 301–2.

9 Durand, Jacques, Quelques souvenirs d'un éditeur de musique, 2 vols. (Paris: A. Durand et fils, 1924–25)Google Scholar: vol. 1, 74, as translated by Naomi Shohet with Osostowicz, Krysia and Howat, Roy in Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Chopin: pianist and teacher as seen by his pupils (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986): 103 Google Scholar. Likewise, Marguerite Long commented in her At the Piano with Debussy, translated by Olive Senior-Ellis (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1972): 13, that one of Debussy's ‘most frequent sayings’ was ‘one must forget that the piano has hammers’.