Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 1

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Markl and his players acquit themselves admirably, and as one-stop shopping for some of Debussy's most engaging orchestral works it's hard to beat. — American Record Guide More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: 8570759
Label: Naxos
Series: Jun Märkl Debussy Orchestral Works
Length: 72 minutes

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Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Work length10:12

$3.00

$3.85

Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

Debussy: La Mer

Work length24:47

$6.00

$7.80

Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

No. 1. De l'aube a midi sur la mer

Track length9:20

$2.00

$2.60

No. 2. Jeux de vagues

Track length7:05

$2.00

$2.60

No. 3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

Track length8:22

$2.00

$2.60

Debussy: Jeux - Poème dansé

Work length19:24

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$5.15

Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

Debussy: Children's Corner

Work length18:16

$6.00

$7.80

Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: July 2007
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

Track length2:39

$1.00

$1.30

II. Jimbo's Lullaby

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

III. Serenade for the Doll

Track length2:49

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$1.30

IV. The Snow is Dancing

Track length3:17

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$1.30

V. The Little Shepherd

Track length2:32

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$1.30

VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

Track length3:20

$1.00

$1.30

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Debussy was one of the most important and influential composers of the early twentieth century. This recording features two of Debussy’s most harmonically innovative and imaginatively orchestrated works. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) evokes a pagan world, as the faun of the title takes his ease in the afternoon shade on a summer day. The three symphonic sketches that constitute La mer (The Sea), inspired partly by Katsushika Hokusai’s famous colour woodcut The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, offer subtly nuanced evocations of the sea from dawn to midday, of the waves and of the dialogue of wind and sea.

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Markl and his players acquit themselves admirably, and as one-stop shopping for some of Debussy's most engaging orchestral works it's hard to beat.

…this is bewitching music-making that should on no account be missed… One of the finest discs Naxos has ever released.

30th May 2008

The Prélude à l'Après-Midi opens with a beautifully shaped flute solo, but then becomes too generalised, without enough stabs of drama to lift its general mood of indolence, while La Mer motors along rather complacently and Jeux totally lacks the quicksilver wit and colouristic imagination that makes it one of the most elusive and potent of Debussy's late works. Whether it's more obvious delight in the luxuriance of the textures, or a sharper analytical insight into the way in which the pieces are constructed, it needs more character; what we get instead is elegant, undemanding background music.

24th May 2008

Debussy ushered in the modern age with breezy whole-tone scales and mere impressions of keys, which the musicians under Märkl paint with delicious colour. Märkl moves the phrases of La Mer like plump, urgent waves, or smoothes them like the deceptive calm ready to surge at any moment. A sense of lurking danger might have been more apparent, however. The Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune paints beautifully the dancing sunlight but lacks that haunting hollowness in the flute that evokes the pagan past. Jeux is both playful and as tense as a tennis racket. But Children's Corner is a little overpowering for the nursery, the jauntiness now rather grotesque in expanded form.

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