Anyone who doubts that Jean-Yves Thibaudet is his generation’s premier interpreter of French piano music should audition the French pianist’s new Decca double-disc set, which completes his traversal ...

The most significant musical anniversaries of 2018 are all centenaries – of the births of Leonard Bernstein and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and of the death of Claude Debussy, and it’s the last of those, ...

The most significant centenary of 2018 has to be that of Claude Debussy, who died in March 1918, aged only 55, after years of suffering from rectal cancer. A dedicated worker even when desperately ill ...

Artur Pizarro continues his major series at St John's, Smith Square in London, in which he performs the complete works for piano solo by Debussy and Ravel. He focuses on works composed between 1912 ...

His music may seem to say otherwise, but Claude Debussy came to a bitter end of an ill-tempered life begun in poverty and ended in complications from rectal cancer. Honoring the centennial of his ...

French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's Chandos recorded the piano music of Debussy, between 2006 and 2009. There were showered with awards and are now collected as a special-priced set. Bavouzet's ...