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Debussy’s Jeux: a complete guide to the best recordings

Richard Whitehouse
Friday, October 21, 2022

Debussy’s elusive ‘poème dansé’ stands at the intersection between late Romanticism and modernism. Richard Whitehouse follows its recorded progress over the past 75 years

Valentine Hugo’s 1913 illustration of a scene from Debussy’s ‘poème dansé’ Jeux depicts Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky and Ludmilla Schollar (photo: G. Dagli Orti/© NPL - DeA Picture Library/Bridgeman Images)
Valentine Hugo’s 1913 illustration of a scene from Debussy’s ‘poème dansé’ Jeux depicts Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky and Ludmilla Schollar (photo: G. Dagli Orti/© NPL - DeA Picture Library/Bridgeman Images)

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