Claude Debussy – Preludes Book I & II – Walter Gieseking (1953/55/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:10:17 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Classical
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Warner Classics/Erato
Debussy composed and published his celebrated 24 Preludes in two books. On this breathtaking audiophile download, Walter Gieseking delivers flawless renditions of these treasured pieces. His playing is thoughtful and precise, captured with pristine clarity. Bryce Morrison declared the album is incomparable and should be in every musician’s library.
Tracklist:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
1 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: I. Danseuses de Delphes 3:13
2 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: II. Voiles 2:43
3 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: III. Le vent dans la plaine 1:58
4 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: IV. ‘Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir’ – Ch. Baudelaire 3:30
5 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: V. Les collines d’Anacapri 2:47
6 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: VI. Des pas sur la neige 3:29
7 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: VII. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest 2:46
8 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin 2:25
9 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: IX. La serenade interrompue 2:15
10 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: X. La cathedrale engloutie 6:34
11 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: XI. La danse de Puck 2:27
12 Preludes Books I & II, Book 1: XII. Minstrels 2:15
13 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: I. Brouillards 2:50
14 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: II. Feuilles mortes 3:03
15 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: III. La Puerta del Vino 2:50
16 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: IV. ‘Les fees sont d’exquises danseuses’ 2:47
17 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: V. Bruyeres 2:34
18 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: VI. ‘General Lavine’ – excentric 2:28
19 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: VII. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune 3:50
20 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: VIII. Ondine 2:50
21 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: IX. Hommage a S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C. 2:09
22 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: X. Canope 2:46
23 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: XI. Les tierces alternees 2:26
24 Preludes Books I & II, Book 2: XII. Feux d’artifice 3:22
Personnel:
Walter Gieseking, piano
About the Mastering
Four engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London have remastered these historic EMI recordings from their original analogue sources for release in pristine hi-def. Between them, Simon Gibson, Ian Jones, Andy Walter and Allan Ramsay have many years of experience remastering archive recordings for EMI and other record labels. The process always starts with finding all of the records and tapes in EMI’s archive in London and comparing different sources and any previous CD reissues. We consult each recording’s job file, which contains notes about the recording made by the engineer and producer. For example, this sometimes explain why there is more than one set of tapes to choose from. All of the tapes are generally in good condition and we play them on our Studer A80 π inch tape machine, after careful calibration of its replay characteristics.
In order to have the best digital remastering tools at our disposal for the remastering, we transfer from analogue to the digital domain at 96 KHz and 24-bit resolution using a Prism ADA-8 converter and capture the audio to our SADiE Digital Audio Workstation.
Simon Gibson, January 2012
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