Suite Bergamasque/Petite Suite/En B

Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl

In aflevering 6 van de veelgeprezen serie orkestwerken van Claude Debussy verkennen Jun Märkl en het Orchestre National de Lyon orkestraties van tijdgenoten en bewonderaars van de componist. De CD bevat ook Debussy's enige poging om een symfonie te schrijven. Hij voltooide echter alleen het eerste deel van dit werk, dat werd geschreven in de geest van de Franse romantiek.

Debussy:
 En blanc et noir
 Petite Suite
 Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61
 Suite Bergamasque
 Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune
 Symphonie in B minor

"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."
Classic FM Magazine - 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"
Gramophone Magazine - July 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."
BBC Music Magazine - August 2011 ****