Composer: Marc-André Dalbavie, Paul Dukas, Olivier Messiaen, Robert Zuidam
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor: George Benjamin, Ingo Metzmacher
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: RCO
Release: 2010
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Dukas: La plainte, au loin, du faune…
Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées (1930)
02. La croix
03. Le peche
04. L’eucharistie
05. Dalbavie: La source d’un regard
Messiaen: Chronochromie for large orchestra
06. I. Introduction
07. II. Strophe I
08. III. Antistrophe I
09. IV. Strophe II
10. V. Antistrophe II
11. VI. Epode
12. VII. Coda
Zuidam: Adam-Interludes
13. I. O, knaegend naberou
14. II. Wy zagen U endtloos schooner dan de zon
15. III. Dat de paradysgront dreunt
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.