It is enough to list all the works in this 18 CD collection as the performances speak for themselves. All the performances here are well known to collectors and all are among the finest. They are as follows:
Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra: Nuages/Fêtes/Sirènes, Jeux, La Mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Images for Orchestra, and Printemps Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra, Franklin Cohen (Clarinet) with Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra
Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, Jean-Rodolphe Kars (Piano) and Sir Alexander Gibson conducting the London Symphony Orchestra
Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, and Danse sacrée et danse profane, Vera Badings (Harp), Bernard Haitink conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Berceuse heroïque, Eduard Van Beinum conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Tarentelle styrienne "Danse", and Khamma, Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestr
Préludes, Book 1, 2 Krystian Zimerman (Piano)
Images for Piano, Sets 1 and 2, and Children's Corner, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Etudes (12) for Piano, Mitsuko Uchida (Piano)
Estampes (3) for Piano, Suite for Piano "Pour le piano", Suite bergamasque, Images oubliées, D'un cahier d'esquisses, L'isle joyeuse, Arabesques, Hommage à Haydn, Rêverie, and Page d'album , Zoltán Kocsis (Piano)
L'enfant prodigue: Cortège, Epigraphes antique, Symphony in B minor, En blanc et noir, Lindaraja, Petite suite for Piano 4 hands, Alfons Kontarsky (Piano), Aloys Kontarsky (Piano) and the Kontarsky Duo
Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10, Melos String Quartet Stuttgart
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, Maria-Joao Pires (Piano), Augustin Dumay (Violin)
Sonata for Cello and Piano, Martha Argerich (Piano), Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, Wolfgang Schulz (Flute), Wolfram Christ (Viola), Margit Anna Süss (Harp) and Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Syrinx, Wolfgang Schulz (Flute)
Poèmes (5) de Baudelaire, Jane, Fêtes galantes, Set 1, Caprice, and Ariettes oubliées, Véronique Dietschy (Soprano), Philippe Cassard (Piano)
Poèmes (3) de Mallarmé, Paysage sentimental, Nuit d'étoiles, Mandoline, Deux romances: no 1, L'âme évaporée, no 2, Les cloches, Chansons (3) de Bilitis, Beau soir, Apparition, La damoiselle élue, Philippe Cassard (Piano), Doris Lamprecht (Mezzo Soprano), Véronique Dietschy (Soprano), Bernard Tetu conducting the Lyon National Chorus Soloists
Proses lyriques, Poèmes (7) de Banville, Mélodies (3) de Verlaine, La belle au bois dormant, L'Archet, Fêtes galantes, Set 2, En sourdine, Clair de lune, Flots, Palmes, Sables, Tragedie, Romance: Voici que le printemps, Regret: Devant le ciel, Poèmes (7) de Banville: no 5 Il dort encore, 7, Fête galante, Nuits blanches, Noël des enfants que n'ont plus de maison, Les papillons, Les angélus, La romance d'Ariel, Dans le jardin, Chansons (3) de France, Ballades (3) de François Villon, and Madrid performed by Véronique Dietschy (Soprano) and Emmanuel Strosser (Piano)
Pelléas et Mélisande, François Le Roux (Baritone), José Van Dam (Bass Baritone), Jean-Phillipe Courtis (Bass), Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano), Patrizia Pace (Soprano), Rudolf Mazzola (Bass), Maria Ewing (Soprano) , conducted by Claudio Abbado and the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Chansons (3) de Charles d'Orléans, Suzanne Flowers (Soprano), Julian Clarkson (Bass), Frances Jellard (Alto) with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir
Le martyre de St Sébastien, Suzanne Danco (Soprano), Nancy Waugh (Voice) with Ernest Ansermet and the Suisse Romande Orchestra and L'Union Chorale de la Tour de Peilz
La boîte à joujoux, Ernest Ansermet and the Suisse Romande Orchestra
Valse romantique, Nocturne for Piano in D flat major, Mazurka for Piano, Masques, Le petit nègre, Danse bohémienne, Ballade slave, Daniel Ericourt (Piano)
L'isle joyeuse, Friedrich Gulda (Piano)
L'enfant prodigue: Air de Lia, Inge Borkh (Soprano), Anatole Fistoulari and the London Symphony Orchestra
Mandoline, Chansons (3) de France: no 2, La grotte, Ballades (3) de François Villon: no 2, Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère, Gérard Souzay (Baritone) with Edouard Lindenberg conducting the Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris
Hours and hours of some of the finest performances of Claude Debussy. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, May 12