Claude Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2

This is Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s second volume of Debussy’s piano music and includes Images (oubliées), Estampes and L’Isle joyeuse, all representing a perhaps more reflective vein in Debussy’s compositional output. Bavouzet is a supreme interpreter of Debussy’s music, as The Sunday Times notes: ‘Bavouzet has taken his time before committing his interpretations to disc but here he announces himself a peerless Debussyite… Bavouzet’s command of touch, colour, and rhythmic vitality are all that one could ask for.’ Listen out for the Classic FM interview with Bavouzet timed to coincide with this release.

Bavouzet’s strengths…to the fore, with glowing colours in the opening Ballade and Valse romantique, followed by sparkling elegance in the Danse. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008,