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, 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

16:51

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

I. Prelude

4:17

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II. Menuet

4:02

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III. Clair de lune

4:45

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IV. Passepied

3:47

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Debussy: Petite Suite

12:56

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

I. En bateau

3:47

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II. Cortege

3:06

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III. Menuet

2:53

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IV. Ballet

3:10

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

15:16

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

I. Tres modere

8:54

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II. Modere

6:22

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Debussy: En blanc et noir

17:26

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

I. Avec emportement

4:48

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II. Lent. Sombre

8:18

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III. Scherzando

4:20

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

11:13

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

I. Allegro ben marcato

4:10

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II. Un poco lento, cantabile

2:45

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III. Primo tempo

4:18

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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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