Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 6

Jun Märkl treats [the piano] as a secondary percussion instrument and the result is surprisingly effective. [En blanc et noir] sounds not merely like Debussy, but like late Debussy, and Holloway's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Apr 2011
Catalogue No: 8572583
Label: Naxos
Series: Jun Märkl Debussy Orchestral Works
Length: 73 minutes

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Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Work length16:51

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Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: 24-27 February 2010
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. Prelude

Track length4:17

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II. Menuet

Track length4:02

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III. Clair de lune

Track length4:45

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IV. Passepied

Track length3:47

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Debussy: Petite Suite

Work length12:56

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Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: 11-14 January 2010
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. En bateau

Track length3:47

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II. Cortege

Track length3:06

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III. Menuet

Track length2:53

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IV. Ballet

Track length3:10

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Debussy: Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61

Work length15:16

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Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: 24-27 February 2010
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. Tres modere

Track length8:54

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II. Modere

Track length6:22

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Debussy: En blanc et noir

Work length17:26

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Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: 24-27 February 2010
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. Avec emportement

Track length4:48

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II. Lent. Sombre

Track length8:18

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III. Scherzando

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Debussy: Symphony in B minor (arr. T. Finno for orchestra)

Work length11:13

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Lyon National Orchestra
Jun Märkl
Recorded: 24-27 February 2010
Recording Venue: Auditorium de Lyon, France

I. Allegro ben marcato

Track length4:10

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II. Un poco lento, cantabile

Track length2:45

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III. Primo tempo

Track length4:18

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Volume 6 in Naxos’s popular series presents five highly diverse works in gorgeous orchestrations by Debussy’s colleagues or later admirers. Indeed, pieces such as Clair de lune and Printemps may even be better known in these seductive guises than in their original forms. Of particular interest is Debussy’s sole attempt at composing a symphony, a youthful work imbued with the spirit of French Romanticism, only the first movement of which he completed.

Jun Märkl’s exemplary interpretations of Debussy’s orchestral music have been praised for their “subtle and sensitive readings” (Gramophone). “This is bewitching music-making that should on no account be missed … One of the finest discs Naxos has ever released” Classic FM on Volume 1 (8570759).

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August 2011

Jun Märkl treats [the piano] as a secondary percussion instrument and the result is surprisingly effective. [En blanc et noir] sounds not merely like Debussy, but like late Debussy, and Holloway's few additions consistently enhance the spirit of the original.

July 2011

If trying to rethink Debussy's sublimely idiomatic piano writing in orchestral terms isn't challenging enough, to make it sound like an orchestral original borders on the impossible. Yet miraculously, this is just what Jun Märkl achieves...He makes En blanc et noir sound even more alluring than in its two-piano original, while an early symphonic movement that originally never got beyond piano-duet scoring emerges like liquid gold.

July 2011

Some of the orchestral versions in Vol 6 are probably just as well known as their keyboard originals, particularly Busser's of the Petite Suite, done with the utmost finesse...Robin Holloway's 2002 version of En blanc et noir breathes Debussian air, as does Tony Finno's realisation of the early Symphony

19th June 2011

They capture perfectly the flash and dazzle of the Suite bergamasque, particularly in the high-voltage opening and closing movements, and charm us with the graceful Petite Suite and Printemps.

19th May 2011

The latest disc in Naxos’s survey of Debussy’s orchestral music is one for a sunny day when you haven’t a care in the world... The Suite bergamasque with the Clair de lune movement, the charming Petite Suite and a movement from the B minor Symphony are all idiomatically played.

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