Jean-Efflam Bavouzet DEBUSSY Complete Works for Piano, Volume 1

This recording marks the debut of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on Chandos. Ralph Couzens was immediately impressed by Bavouzet's brilliant technique coupled with an acute sensitivity. Bavouzet was keen to record the complete piano works by Debussy and this first volume covers Books 1 and 2 of the famous Préludes together with the short, late prelude entitled 'Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon', only rediscovered in 2001 and thought to have been written by Debussy as a gift for his Parisian coal merchant who managed to find him some coal during the particularly cold winter of 1917. Bavouzet will record the second volume in this series in July.