One Of The Less Essential Cover Disks

This BBC Music mag cover disk features more music by Debussy, in this case orchestral works played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ilan Volkov conducts them in the longest piece, Images, of which I also have a commercial recording on a double disk Debussy compendium. This is a competitive version of the piece which ranges over what Debussy thought was a Scottish theme ( The Keel Row ) but which is in fact from the north east of England, to Iberian influences. The other two works I don't have elsewhere. They are both scores that now exist only as piano duets in Debussy's hand but are here performed in the orchestrated versions by Henri Busser. Busser's arrangements of Printemps and Petite Suite are suitably impressionistic in typical Debussyan style. Volkov is again the conductor for Printemps, while Petite Suite sees the BBC SSO under Pierre-Andre Valade. A slightly run of the mill monthly offering to be honest