Average Rating: (2 out of 5 stars)
Not well done, not as advertised
From what I can see and hear, several of the tracks are not of rolls attributed to Debussy, but to the likes of Rudolph Ganz and Walter Gieseking (great as they were, not Debussy).
The piano roll speed at times seems implausibly fast. Children's Corner is disposed of in about 15 minutes. That should tell you everything you need to know.
Yet, I am glad I got it. Rolling chords and rubato are distinctive, even though you have to do a glassbead game to figure out what it really means.
Hopefully the Debussy rolls will get re-recorded at some point with a more sophisticated aesthetic.
Submitted by hector (university park, md, usa)
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some pieces are very different
While'The Drowned Cathedral' is a nice, new interpretation, 'Arabesque #1' is unpleasantly allegro, as are one or two other pieces. I suppose its possible that the pieces were originally played this way, but that's too fast for me.The quality of the recording is good.
Submitted by stfstl2001 (Saint Louis, MO USA) 
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