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John Wiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:23:41 -0500
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T. Boyce wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a recording of Debussy's Preludes for Piano?

Not a single iffy recommendation here so far, IMO. Let's add Paul Jacobs
[Nonesuch] and Claudio Arrau [Philips] to the list; among historical
recordings, Marcelle Meyer's is worth attention [EMI].

Perhaps someone, somewhere, and soon will transfer to CD the Prelude
recordings of E. Robert Schmitz. That might not seem a promising name for
a Debussy interpreter, but then, neither is Gieseking's. Someone here might
suggest this to historical piano specialist Allan Evans at Arbiter Records;
I can't, because all he takes at my suggestions is umbrage.

John Wiser
I host and program at this site four hours of classical music in streaming
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