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ID: KAI0012742
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreMessiaen's last composition before he passed away, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for its 150th anniversary, is a fantastic orchestral piece inspired by birds. This Kairos offering is a wonderful live recording by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, performed at Vienna's famous Musikverein. |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RCO9003
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreRecorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8, 9 November 2007 (Dukas/Van Keulen, Dalbavie, Messiaen, and 13, 14 June 2008 (Zuidam)
1 - 12: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Benjamin
13 - 15: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on Messiaen in its 2007-8 season. A major musical figure of the 20th-century, Messiaen (1908-1992) created an entirely unique musical oeuvre 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 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, including three premières 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. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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