Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Claude Debussy (Composer), André Previn (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

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• Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: André Previn
• Composer: Claude Debussy
• Audio CD (October 19, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B00001ZSX8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,094 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nicely done Debussy, and a sliver of history, July 15, 2006

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This review is from: Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Audio CD)

The Seventies was a good decade for Previn, who turned in most of his veyr best recordings with the London Sym. I'm not sure this La Mer and Trois Nocturnes is one of them--it's beautifully played and recorded, but Previn's a bit cautious and impersonal He can't quite find a way to imbue the music with any special flavor or presonality of his own. But there's a historical footnote to the 1979 Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, which won a Gramophone Award in 1979. It was EMI's very first digital recording using their own technology. As such, it was hairld as a gorgeous engineering job--it still sounds like one--but for economic reasons EMI adopted equipemnt and technology for outside sources. So a true EMI digital recording is rare. The soundstage is huge, the solo flute is seductively captured--all in all, it's the best thing here.