| Label: RCO LIVE Catalog: RCO09003 Format: CD George Benjamin, conductor, Ingo Metzmacher conductor, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Paul Dukas / Geert van Keulen:
La plainte, au loin, du faune…* (1920, orch. 2007)
Olivier Messiaen: - Les offrandes oubliées (1930)
Très lent (douloureux, profondément triste) / Vif (féroce, désesperée, haletant) / Extrêmement lent (avec un grande pitié et un grand amour)
Marc-André Dalbavie: - La source d’un regard* (2007)
Olivier Messiaen: Chronochromie (1959-60)
Introduction / Strophe I / Antistrophe I / Strophe II / Antistrophe II / Épôde / Coda
Rob Zuidam Adam-Interludes: (2007-2008)
I O, knaegend naberou / II Wy zagen U endtloos schooner dan de zon / III Dat de paradysgront dreunt
Gramophone Editor's Choice - March 2010
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on Messiaen in its 2007–8 season. A major musical figure of the twentieth century, Messiaen (b. 1908, d. 1992) created an entirely unique musical œuvre in which such divergent elements as divinity (as it relates to Catholicism and other doctrines), ornithology and the synaesthetic perception of sound as colour are all interconnected with his innovative rhythmic and harmonic musical language and tonal organisation. As a thinker and teacher, Messiaen carried out groundbreaking work in music during the second half of the twentieth century, but his work as a composer has remained unsurpassed. During this special season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra programmed works not only by Messiaen himself, but also compositions by his musical predecessors, students and disciples.
In addition to two compositions by Messiaen, this recording features three premieres of works commissioned by the RCO: Geert van Keulen’s orchestration of Paul Dukas’s La plainte, au loin, du faune…, Marc-André Dalbavie’s La source d’un regard (The Source of a Look) and Robert Zuidam’s Adam Interludes.
With this second release in the Horizon CD series dedicated to contemporary repertoire, RCO Live has captured this resounding homage to Olivier Messiaen in superb five-channel stereo. Price: $28.98 |