World Premiere Recording
1 : Prélude oublié, de “l'Enfant Prodigue“ - 2:47
2 : Prélude oublié, de “Rodrigue et Chimène” - 5:00 
3 : Prélude oublié, La Fille aux cheveux de lin (première version en Sib Majeur) - 0:47
4 : Prélude oublié, de “l'Histoire de Tristan” - 4:28
5 : Prélude oublié, Bruyères (première version) - 3:47  
6 : Prélude oublié, Toomai des Éléphants (nouvelle édition) - 6:34
7 : Petite Valse - 2:08
8 : Fêtes Galantes - Tableau 1 - Les Masques (commencement) - 7:09
9 : Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, mouvement non utilisé (première esquisse de l'Acte 3 No.4 : La Passion) - 4:29 
10 : No-Ja-Li (Le Palais du Silence) - Ballet chinois en 1 Acte et 8 scènes (version avec Florient Azouley, Narrateur)- 17:18
11 : Le Roi Léar, Prélude - 3:53
12 : Le Roi Léar, (autre) Fanfare - 0:57
13 : Le Roi Léar, Le Sommeil de Léar - 3:38
14 : Le Roi Léar, La Mort de Cordélia - 3:37
15 : Un jour affreux avec le Diable dans le Beffroi (version avec Florient Azouley, Narrateur) - 11:37
16 : A Night in the House of Usher - 6:28

Label : Grand Piano Record / Naxos

Press Review


Le Figaro (18 March 2020 -Thierry Hillériteau) "A Ecouter" & "A Reecouter, notre selection de disques pour s'evader du confinement" 
& 2020 en 20 Disques Classiques coups de cœur
Autant de premiers enregistrements fascinants, dont le sentiment d’exhumation est renforcé par le jeu virtuose et évanescent d’Horvath, 

Musicweb international (April 2020 -John France)
 this is essential listening for all Debussy enthusiasts who see beyond the one or two potboilers normally presented to the listening public.

Revista Concerto (1 july 2020) 
Fascinanting

Mikiki Music Review (08 May 2020 - 飛田晴海 (Harumi Tobita) )
If you like Debussy, listen carefully to this album

Artalinna (9 Juin 2020 -  Jean-Charles Hoffelé) Debussy, cet Inconnu Le Disque du jour
a gripping musical journey, what happiness that Debussy found such a knowledgeable musicologist as Robert Orledge, such an inspired pianist and such a disturbing piano.

American Record Guide (September 2020 -Sang Woo Kang)
Horvath playing is incredibly sensitive and full of color. 

Pianist (September 2020 –Myrthe Meester) RATING : 8
a surprising CD which consists almost entirely of world premiere recordings

Therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com (21 Octobre 2021 -Stephen Smoliar) 
It is clear from this new album that Horvath has a solid command of Debussy’s technical and rhetorical devices, solid enough to bring the flesh and blood of performance to Orledge’s scholarly documents.

Philip Nones (20 March 2020)
 absolutely fascinating (…) well-worth exploring

Records International - March 2020
A uniquely valuable program

Aurelien Dumon : 
Magnificent [album] Unpublished Debussy by Nicolas Horvath

Tower Records (20 April 2020- 飛田晴海 (Haruumi Tomida) ) 
Horvath makes the listener fall in love with his velvet touch. If you like Debussy, listen carefully to this album.

Musique Classique & Co (1 March 2020 - Thierry Vagne )  
An exciting disc.

David's Review Corner (March 2020 -David Denton)
There is much to test the soloist’s outgoing technical virtuosity, Horvath outstanding in creating the multiplicity of colours demanded.

Laurent Vilarem (13 March 2020)
an Incredible Debussy record

Classical CD Choice (March 2020 -Barry Forshaw)
For admirers of the composer Debussy, this disc of unfamiliar pieces will be the sheerest catnip. 

Francis Benoît Cousté (19 Febuary 2020) 
a real treasure, surprisingly ignored until today. Interpretations of extreme delicacy, without any preciousness 

Lark Reviews (March 2020)
All well worth hearing and here splendidly performed

Beethovenetlesautres.wordpress (14 March2020 - Frederique Reibell)
an exciting record

Carnet sur Sol (2 April 2020 -David LeMarrec) : Réussi! 
I am struck by the beauty of timbre obtained by Nicolas Horvàth, each attack sings with roundness, without preventing a beautiful variety of textures.
Something to renew his Debussy with delight.

Süddeutsche Zeitung (13 April 2020 - Julia Spinola) Entdeckungstour 
These explorations remain exciting, even if Horvath, despite all the virtuosity, elicits an occasionally all too dark oracular "ambient" sound from the chosen Steinway from 1926. Other things sound wonderfully mysterious. A discovery.

L'Éducation Musicale (July 2020 -Édith Weber ) 
This beautiful achievement illustrates the problem of transcriptions, complements and arrangements for interpretation, which the talented pianist performs with great mastery and high musicality. One more advance in the service of the composer: DEBUSSY differently.

Classica (October 2020 –Jacques Bonnaure) RATING : ★★★
the result is always interesting,

BBC Music Magazine (July 2020 -Martin Cotton) RATING : Performance ★★★ Recording ★★★
Nicolas Horvath’s playing is graceful and tonally limpid 

Stretto.be (4 April 2020 -Michel Dutrieue) 
An original CD from a sunny duo from the French Riviera.

Claude Ledoux (7 April 2020) 
wonderfully performed by a passionate pianist ! 

Inactuelles (29 Febuary 2020 –Dionys )
A passionate journey through the work of Claude Debussy, magnificently served by the interpretation of Nicolas Horvath, rigorous and sensitive.

Musical Opinion Quarterly (October 2020-Peter Dickinson ) RATING : ★★★★★
Fascinating

Gang-Flow (5 May 2020 -Anne-Sandrine Di Girolamo ) Un très beau Debussy au bois dormant
This love is under every note of Nicolas Horvath's highly worked piano. And this love, we feel it like love at first sight from the first notes

Bertrandferrier.fr (2 Février 2021 -Bertrand Ferrier) 
This curious disc for the curious – an 85-minute exploration. Daring to produce or listen to such an ambitious, crazy and fantastical record subsumes questions about the Debussyst authenticity of the pieces.
the quality of the interpretation of Nicolas Horvath blows on the embers of our curiosity.
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