Orchestre National/Rophe - Claude Debussy: Orchestrated - Petite Suite, La Bo?te ? joujoux, Children?s Corner

With the present disc, Pascal Roph� and his Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire pay tribute to their great countryman, Claude Debussy � but not with the standard orchestral fare. Debussy Orchestrated paints a portrait of a light-hearted composer, seen through the eyes of two of his collaborators, Henri B�sser and Andr� Caplet, who transferred the works recorded here from the keyboard to the orchestra. In Petite Suite, composed for piano four hands in 1899, Debussy makes allusions to F�tes galantes by Paul Verlaine, the poet who so often inspired him. B�sser�s orchestration of this light and pleasant suite was made in 1907, and obviously pleased Debussy, as he later entrusted him with making an orchestral version of Printemps.