Debussy - Les Trois Sonates, the Late Works

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Harmonia Mundi artists including Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras pay tribute to Claude Debussy’s melancholic late first world war works

This year’s centenary of Claude Debussy’s death has produced the expected splurge of special issues, but few have upset the existing order of the finest performances on disc. The late works have been well served, and outstanding accounts of the three sonatas Debussy composed between 1915 and 1917 – all that he lived to complete of a projected set of six – have framed the anniversary.