Debussy - Clair De Lune 'Piano Favourites' [Jones]
Here's a mixed anthology of Debussy's piano music, delving into all areas of his solo works, highlighting on the best / famous bits i suppose, taken from Martin Jones complete survey on 5 separate discs, this disc can be used as a satisfying recital in itself [which is what i use it for], or a sampler to see if you want to go further with the other discs, i find Jones a safe interpreter of Debussy's music, not in the league of the most astounding Pianists, but i like this set because there's areas of Debussy's solo piano music that i seem to have skipped over, especially the Etudes, and maybe it's time to re-listen to certain areas of his oeuvre.
Martin Jones is English, now 71 years of age, he has recorded extensively for Nimbus, recording whole cycles of Composers works, he recorded this disc in 1988, the front cover is a painting by Claude Monet entitled Twilight, Venice, a silhouette full of gorgeous colours, mainly yellow and orange, i like paintings, but seem to find too many duds as artwork for disc covers [Naxos anyone?], but this is a lovely one.
I was surprised how much of this recital i enjoyed that i didn't know quite so well, it's very generous [over 76 minutes], and nicely varied too, the tracks i liked the most were 1-3, 5 & 17,
