- Recorded: 2009
- Record label: Hallé
- Performers: Hallé Orchestra; Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
- Availability: On general release
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Reviews of Claude Debussy, Jeux, Preludes for Piano orch. Colin Matthews
Matthews’s exquisite treatment of this supremely pianistic music goes far beyond mere orchestration. While some of his arrangements are relatively straightforward – Danseuses de Delphes, which opens the first book and with which this sequence also opens, for instance, is a relatively strict translation of the original into orchestral terms – pieces such as Bruyères and Feux d’Artifice are virtually recomposed, though they never trespass beyond Debussy’s own musical world. The whole set is a remarkable achievement, and Elder and his orchestra play these pieces with great care and sensitivity. Yet by comparison their account of Jeux seems rather lumbering, applying colour with a broad brush to what should be needle-point detail. The disc remains a treat, though.