Liliana Faraon, Magali Léger, Gilles Ragon, François Le Roux & Jean-Louis Haguenauer - Debussy: Intégrale des mélodies (2014)

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Title: Debussy: Intégrale des mélodies
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Ligia Digital
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 4:39:24
Total Size: 1001 MB
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These discs comprise the first complete recording to include all of Debussy's settings of the same text.
Also included here are a number of songs that have only recently been discovered. What is proposed is a promenade that unfolds chronologically, from the very first youthful mélodie to be preserved to the very last song that he composed, on a text of his own, set down in the midst of the Great War by a composer exhausted and decimated by the rectal cancer that would lead to his death in 1918.

In all, 101 titles spread over four CDs — forty-two more, that is, than the most recent "complete edition" of the songs issued on three CDs by EMI in the nineteen-eighties.

Five French singers were selected both in order to vary the colors of the individual works and in order to respect the tessituras they require. The booklet with the recording includes an historical essay by Denis Herlin, one of world's leading Debussy scholars, an essay on the mélodies by the celebrated baritone François Le Roux, and a note by the pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer concerning Debussy's Blüthner piano, which is featured on this recording.