Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

 

Complete Orchestral Works

 

Orchestre National de Lyon / Jun Märkl

 

CD1:

La mer

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune  

 

CD2:

Nocturnes

Pelléas et Mélisande: Symphonie (arr M Constant)  

 

CD3:

Images

 

CD4:

Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien

Khamma (compl Koechlin)

 

CD5:

La boîte à joujoux (orch Debussy & A Caplet)

Six épigraphes antiques (orch E Ansermet)

 

CD6:

Suite bergamasque (orch G Cloez & Caplet)

Petite Suite (orch H Büsser)

En blanc et noir (orch R Holloway)

L’isle joyeuse (orch B Molinari)

 

CD7-8:

Préludes (orch C Matthews)

Printemps (orch Büsser)

Estampes Nos 1 & 2 (orch Caplet & Büsser)

Symphony in B minor (orch T Finno)  

 

CD9:

Fantaisie for piano and orchestra

Deux Danses

Rhapsodies for clarinet and saxophone

 

This collection contains all Debussy’s works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music. Together these display a rich panorama of Debussian sound and a remarkable

insight into the composer. Established arrangements by Debussy’s contemporaries, including Ravel and Caplet, are complemented by more recent arrangements from composers such as Colin Matthews and

Robin Holloway. The conductor Jun Märkl believes that Debussy ‘set up a model of orchestration for the rest of the twentieth century’ and it is with this conviction that he draws from the Orchestre National de Lyon such ‘world-class playing’ (American Record Guide).

 

 

Jun Märkl took up his job as musical director of the Lyon National Orchestra in September 2005, and in 2007/8 he became principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the MDR Sinfonieorchester.

 

‘A richly satisfying collection, immaculately recorded, with its full measure of rarities.’ Gramophone on CD 2

 

‘This conductor/orchestra partnership is clearly something out of the ordinary…’ Fanfare on CD 3

 

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