Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande – review

Maurane/Danco/Etcheverry/Philharmonia/Inghelbrecht(Testament, three CDs)For many admirers of Debussy's only completed opera, the recording (currently available on EMI) Roger Désormière conducted in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941 has never been surpassed. Yet between the wars it was Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, a close friend of Debussy, who was regarded as the pre-eminent Pelléas conductor. Inghelbrecht never made a commercial recording of the work, but in 1951 he conducted a studio performanc...

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