Gramophone Awards 2019
Winner - Chamber

Gramophone Magazine
November 2018
Editor's Choice

Presto Recording of the Week
16th November 2018

Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2018

Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Debussy: Berceuse héroïque, L. 132: Pour piano. Modéré (sans lenteur)
Debussy: Pièce pour l'oeuvre du ‘Vêtement du blessé'
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp in F Major, L. 137
Debussy: Élégie, L. 138: Pour piano. Lent et douloureux
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Debussy: Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon in A-flat major, CD. 150: Pour piano. Lent et rêveur

"Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov’s account of the Violin Sonata, Debussy’s last completed score, embraces exquisite fragility and strength in equal measure...Jean-Guihen Queyras and Javier Perianes’s performance of the Cello Sonata, noble in manner and grand in scale, balances the austere grief of the opening movement with understated wit in the Sérénade...Listen to it in a single sitting, and in the right playing order: it’s extraordinarily moving." - Gramophone Magazine November 2018