World Premiere Recording of Debussy's Orchestral Suite no. 1 (compl. Manoury)

[LateRomantic75]

In their July catalogue, Records International features a disc on the Actes Sud label that contains the world premiere recording of the orchestral version of Debussy's early Premiere Suite. Although the coupling is the ubiquitous La mer, this still looks like a release to investigate. Here's the description from Records International:

Only two months ago, the two-piano version of this suite appeared on Naxos and we optimistically hoped that the orchestral version might appear soon. But this soon? Great! As we said before, the suites recently written by Massenet, Delibes and Lalo were Debussy's main influences and the latter's Bacchanale from Namouna is evoked in the fourth movement Cortège et Bacchanale. The third movement was not preserved and was orchestrated by Manoury - it is closest to the Debussy of Pelleas while there are hints in the Cortège of the full-blown style of La mer. Les Siècles; François-Xavier Roth.

http://www.recordsinternational.com/cd.php?cd=07P038

Sounds interesting, no?

[TerraEpon]

FWIW, the piano version is also on Brilliant Classics which was released (dunno about recorded) before the Naxos one.

But another recording of La Mer? Sigh...