Composer: Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen
Performer: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lionel Cottet, Jenny Daviet, Moon Yung Oh, Matthias Ettmayr, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Orchestra: Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Number of DIscs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BR Klassik
Catalogue: 900203
Release: 2021
Size: 1.37 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
La transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I / 48, Premier septénaire (Live)
01. I. Recit evangelique
02. II. Configuratum corpori claritatis suae
03. III. Christus Jesus, splendor patris
04. IV. Recit evangelique
05. V. Quam dilecta tabernacula tua
06. VI. Candor est lucis aeternae
07. VII. Choral de la sainte montagne
CD 02
La transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I / 48, Deuxième septénaire (Live)
01. VIII. Recit evangelique
02. IX. Perfecte conscius illius perfectae generationis
03. X. Adoptionem filiorum perfectam
04. XI. Recit evangelique
05. XII. Terribilis est locus iste
06. XIII. Tota trinitas apparuit
07. XIV. Choral de la lumière de gloire
CD 03
Poemes pour Mi, I / 17b, Livre 1 (Live)
01. No. 1, Action de grâces
02. No. 2, Paysage
03. No. 3, La maison
04. No. 4, Épouvante
Poemes pour Mi, I / 17b, Livre 2 (Live)
05. No. 5, L’épouse
06. No. 6, Ta voix
07. No. 7, Les deux guerriers
08. No. 8, Le collier
09. No. 9, Prière exaucée
Chronochromie for large orchestra (Live)
10. I. Introduction
11. II. Strophe I
12. III. Antistrophe I
13. IV. Strophe II
14. V. Antistrophe II
15. VI. Épôde
16. VII. Coda
Few performers are more familiar with the musical language of the French composer Olivier Messiaen than the American conductor Kent Nagano. Nagano has had Messiaen’s orchestral works and oratorios in his program for several decades now, and he also participated in the world premiere of Saint François d’Assise, Messiaen’s only opera. During the year 1982 Nagano spent his time with Messiaen in Paris, where not only an artistic relationship but also a close personal one developed between the two musicians.
BR-Klassik has now released three masterpieces by the French composer with the magical sound, presented by Kent Nagano to the Munich concert audience in recent years as conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks: the oratorio La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ for chorus, seven solo instruments and orchestra, the song cycle Poèmes pour Mi for soprano and orchestra, as well as Chronochromie for large orchestra. These three live recordings document outstanding artistic events from the Munich concert program of June 2017, July 2018 and February 2019.