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Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works (Naxos: 8.509002) [Box set]

Jun Märkl Audio CD
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  • Conductor: Jun Märkl
  • Composer: Claude Debussy
  • Audio CD (31 Jan 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 9
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B006O51CSY
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,526 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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

These treasurable pieces have never sounded finer on disc. --Classic FM on CD 5

'...it s a fascinating and extensive collection that I recommend both to collectors who want to explore some of the rarities and also to anyone wanting to hear Märkl's impressively plated and imaginatively conducted performances of the major works.' --Nigel Simeone, International Record Review July/August 2012

An unqualified must-buy box for pianists, conductors and arrangers alike, especially at Naxos price. --Michael Round, International Piano Nov-Dec 2012

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Orchestre National de Lyon - Jun Märkl, direction

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Box of Delights 28 Jun 2012
By Graham
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This box brings together the nine discs of Debussy's orchestral works, which were recorded by the German/Japanese conductor Jun Markl and the Orchestre National de Lyon between 2007 and 2011. Here is all Debussy's orchestral music, and more. Not only do we have all his works originally written for orchestra and his own orchestration of some of his piano works, but also a considerable number of pieces orchestrated by others: people who were very close to him such as Ravel and Caplet, for example, students and friends, and modern composers such as Colin Matthews (the two books of preludes)and Robin Holloway.

I have been very impressed by this collection and have discovered many things that were new to me. It might be said that there are better performances available of the familiar works such as La Mer, Images, and Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien, and the work which opens the collection, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, draws from Markel a performance which is languorous in the extreme, but it seems to me that there are far more hits than misses in this collection. Indeed, I have discovered delight after delight. Taken as a whole this collection is, to my ears, a refreshing and illuminating experience, truly a box of delights!

The nine discs are in cardboard sleeves and are contained within a sturdy box. The one hundred page booklet is first class. It has full track listings and recording details, an interview with the conductor, excellent notes on the music by the always dependable Keith Anderson and artist profiles.

Tim Handley's vivid and detailed recordings are quite superb and well up to his usual high standard.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Debussy Complete Orchestral Works 28 Aug 2012
By Robbo
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This 9-CD boxed set is a wonderful addition to my collection - and includes the familiar works he composed for orchestra as well as unfamiliar orchestrations of a lot of his piano music like the Preludes. If you are a completist don't hesitate just buy it! The CDs are package in a robust and elegant card box - its a bit odd that the CDs only about half fill it so it takes up more shelf space than needed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A welcome newcomer to the shelf 26 Feb 2013
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The first thing you notice about this set is the number of discs, Jean Martinon's classic EMI recording of the complete orchestral works is on four discs, which includes the usual orchestrations by other composers, yet here we have nine discs! So why the extra discs, well for me, and this is this sets real selling point, this set contains a lot more piano works which have been orchestrated by others, Colin Mathews masterly orchestration of the complete preludes. This is not to say the authentic orchestral music is to be ignored, no there are some fine recordings here, I just can't see them ever supplanting Martinon or Pierre Boulez in my affection! This is not to say that they have nothing to offer the listener, they fine recordings in their own way, and however, they just lack that little spark of brilliance which would make the equal to my favourite recordings.
So it is the unusual orchestrated works which are the standout feature of this set for me and a real eye opener! To hear works like the Symphony in B minor (an orchestration by the American, Tony Finno, of the early piece for piano duet which Debussy had sent to Nadezhda von Meck), En blanc et noir, Petite Suite or Ansermet's orchestration of the Six épigraphes antiques, makes you appreciate just what fine works these are! If only Debussy had orchestrated more himself, but failing this, this is a very fine collection of orchestrations all be them in a different hand to the composer.
For anyone coming to the music of Debussy afresh, this is an ideal set with which to appreciate his music, but for those of us with pre-conceived ideals based on years of experience of playing our favourite recordings, you ma, like myself, find it hard to supplant your trusty old recordings. Mind you at the meagre price, it is well worth buying this set for the orchestrations, after all you will be hard pushed to make up a collection like this for anywhere near the price Naxos are offering this set for.
On the whole the recorded sound is good, there are a couple of discs which could have been better, but even here the sound is not that bad. The set is accompanied by an excellent book, with some 33 pages dedicated to the music, as well as an interview with Jun Märkl. A welcome newcomer to the shelf, if not my top choice in Debussy's own orchestrated works.
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