Debussy "Clair de lune" (arr. Cailliet) - Ormandy conducts

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Debussy's most popular piano piece has been orchestrated by quite a few musicians, including Andre Caplet, Henri Mouton, Leopold Stokowski, Andre Kostelanetz, Morton Gould, Carmen Dragon, and several others, including the French-American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist Lucien Cailliet (1891-1985). Here is his arrangement, as first recorded in 1954 by the Philadelphia Orchestra under its Hungarian-American conductor, Eugene Ormandy. It comes from a 'Pristine Audio' release that features other arrangements by Cailliet of works by Bach, Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky in transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn. (PASC 532). Incidentally, it was Cailliet's arrangement of 'Clair de lune' that was played during the final scene of "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Elliott Gould.