Timeline for Has Debussy really recorded his own works?
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 18:52 | comment | added | 11684 | @RosieF Well, yes; that’s more or less my point. The Debussy recording tells us that Debussy intended something else to be played than what he wrote. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Rosie F | @11684 If you mean playing most of La cathédrale engloutie twice as fast as the first few and last few bars, Rui Pedro Pereira discusses recordings of performances by Debussy and others, and argues that, despite Debussy's notation, this is what he intended. [La cathédrale engloutie: Is musicology changing the way we perform?, International Symposium on Performance Science, ISBN 978-90-9022484-8, pp.109-114] | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:39 | comment | added | 11684 | @RogérioDec No, it is not a sin; it is a question of taste. However, it may be because you are just used to modern recordings; musical taste changed dramatically over a century. At any rate, there is quite a lot of useful information to be gleaned from Debussy’s playing. For example, there is a spot in one of the preludes where Debussy takes double tempo in his recording, but nothing in the score indicates this. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:35 | comment | added | 11684 | @RogérioDec Yes, that is the case with the recording you linked. However, recording technology emerged around 1900 so there are live recordings from this time. I know for sure Grieg made live recordings and even Brahms (obviously slightly before 1900), and those are just two examples I have recently heard; I am sure you will be able to find many more live recordings from that time by people who are still very famous. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:27 | comment | added | Rogério Dec | Is it a sin to say that I prefer the interpretations of our current pianists? Looks like Debussy was in a hurry to finish the recording! Too fast! I am also a composer and I have been amazed at how interpretations of my works sound better than I planned, through some pianists... | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:22 | vote | accept | Rogério Dec | ||
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:22 | comment | added | Rogério Dec | So, it's not in fact a Debussy live recording, but a paper roll (our current MIDI) which was recorded by Debussy at that time, and was reproduced and recorded by modern recording equipments recently... It's insane! It's basically to be listening to Debussy's ghost playing! | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:15 | history | answered | 11684 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |