Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet

The cellist and pianist juxtapose three major 20th-century sonatas – by George Walker, Britten and Debussy – with a handful of songs in which the cellist takes the vocal line.

Elena Urioste and Tom Poster’s new album showcases the chamber music of a prodigiously talented French musician who, 150 years ago, had to disguise herself to be taken seriously

The RLPO’s new chief conductor’s first recording with his orchestra brings together three key French ballet scores from the early 20th century

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus brought dynamic shading to Smyth’s at times forbidding work, and conjured sensuous beauty from Debussy’s Nocturnes

The pianists united to play Stravinsky’s overwhelming and savage two-piano version of the Rite of Spring, with Adams, Schumann and Debussy in the first half

Chamber works from the beginning and end of the composer’s career combine with a modern echo in this elegant collection

Period instruments and French voices add an extra dimension to François-Xavier Roth’s recording

He created a new world of ravishing instrumental colour and constantly shifting sensations and images. He brought new breath to the art of music, said Boulez. Did modern music start with Debussy?

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The selection of familiar and less-so works by turn of the 20th-century French composers are played with subtlety and colour

Harmonia Mundi musicians including Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras pay tribute to the composer’s melancholic final works

The many layers of Stefan Herheim’s staging prove detaching distractions from the twisted mystery of the Debussy tragedy