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Title: WOW - This is something special!
Review: You don't often encounter "cheap" CDs of standard repertoire that challenge the best of the full-priced labels, but Max Pommer's recordings of these core works of Claude Debussy can quite simply be placed in the league of the very best. The salt-and-sea spray of "La Mer" is ideally rendered, while the langour of "Faun" and the subtleties of "Nocturnes" are likewise beautifully realized. A combination of graceful and powerful playing by the Leipzig Radio Orchestra along with the amazingly clear yet powerful sonics put this recording at the top of a list of many distinguished accounts. I won't be discarding my CDs by Boulez (Sony), Martinon (EMI) or Karajan's 1964 DG "La Mer", but this will be the recording I reach for when I want to hear these magical scores. An utterly astounding CD!(No notes, which is the only strike against this release.)
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