Aldo Ciccolini - Debussy: Complete Piano Works; Fantaisie for piano & orchestra, Songs'Claude Debussy is still the greatest musical enigma that has ever existed,' said Aldo Ciccolini. 'You never get to the bottom of his music. That is perhaps why he will never be forgotten: people will never give up trying to make sense of him. Debussy never fails to surprise you and his music has a charm that is quite indefinable.' Ciccolini, though born in Naples, confessed to having a French soul and he distinguished himself as a supremely subtle

very intensive music

is more optimistic than that of Adorno

And so Bill selected all-time classics like I'm Movin' On

plus an extensive essay by the American musicologist Richard Taruskin on Furtwängler's art - all of which results in a release which provides an opportunity to discover and relive this great chapter in the history of the Berliner Philharmoniker in all it's facets as never before

someone whose talent helped to stimulate the creation of an original repertoire

'It's A Wonderful Life' and 'Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain' in the early aughts

the famous O passi sparsi by Sebastiano Festa

Richard Dunn conducted the Palisades Baroque in all nine Telemann concerti for horn(s) and strings

proving that age is insignificant where there is a meeting of musical minds

and he ended up sending me a pile of truly spontaneous drums recordings from the carport to work with

featuring Sibylla Rubens (soprano)

whose language is perfectly fitted to this most Brahmsian of genres