Best orchestral recordings of Claude Debussy

[jinjuku]

Looking for his Seminole works like Pagodes and Clair de Lune

Not looking for piano, but arranged for orchestra.

 

[Pat D]

Looking for his Seminole works like Pagodes and Clair de Lune

Not looking for piano, but arranged for orchestra.

Those two pieces are originally for piano.

I haven't gone in for transcription of Debussy's piano works. The Penguin Guide thinks this is decent enough and 3 Amazon customers are quite enthusiastic about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Corner-Debussy-Orchestrations-Hybrid/dp/B000MRA78Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313772850&sr=1-1

For Debussy's orchestral music, the first modern recordings that come to mind are those by conductor Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony. I have most of them. They seem universally excellent and and are very well-recorded. But there are other conductors who have a good reputation with Debussy, such as Barenboim, von Karajan, Haitink, and Martinon. This one has most of the important works.

http://www.amazon.com/Debussy-Mer-Claude/dp/B00002MXMY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313772327&sr=1-1

The Penguin Guide is quite enthusiastic about this collection.

http://www.amazon.com/Debussy-Orchestral-Music-Claude/dp/B00000417P/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313775972&sr=1-1

For much older recordings, I think of Ernest Ansermet and the Suisse Romande Orchestra. The sound is not as realistic, but I think they are very artistically done. Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony did a wonderful recording of La mer, which is available in several iterations.