Composers: Debussy
Compositions: Nocturnes
Performers: Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Lan Shui
Catalogue Number:BIS BIS2232

This final instalment of Lan Shui’s is a fitting culmination to a highly successful BIS series, which demonstrates that you don’t have to be French to be idiomatically “Gallic”. I puzzled over the term HIP (Historically Informed Performance practice) in one review, which decreed that Lan Shui’s Debussy wasn’t… hmm. This CD was a voyage of rediscovery as I’d forgotten how playful and cryptic the Berceuse Heroïque (even the title is contradictory and it’s...