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RCO09004
Barcode: 5425008376967
MID PRICE SACD
Modest MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an exhibition (instr Maurice Ravel 1922)
Promenade, Gnomus, Promenade, Il vecchio castello, Promenade, Tuileries,
Bydlo, Promenade, Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques,
Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle, Limoges, le marché,
Catacombae, sepulchrum Romanum, Cum mortuis in lingua mortua,
La cabane sur des pattes de poule, La grande porte de Kiev
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra /
Mariss Jansons (chief conductor)
Recorded Live Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 22, 23 May & 29 Aug 2008
A special-priced release on RCO Live of Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an exhibition in Ravel's
orchestration. Recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Mariss Jansons and the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, on magnificent form, produce a wonderful palette of colours and sonority in this
dazzling orchestral piece.
RCO09003
Barcode: 5 425008 376875
SACD
HORIZON 2 - A TRIBUTE TO OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Paul DUKAS/Geert van Keulen La plainte, au loin, du faune;
MESSIAEN Les Offrandes Oubliées, Chronochromie;
DALBAVIE La source d'un regard; Zuidam Adam-Interludes
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / George Benjamin, Ingo
Metzmacher (conductors)
Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8, 9 November 2007
(Dukas/Van Keulen, Dalbavie, Messiaen, and 13, 14 June 2008 (Zuidam)
IN CONCERT: 12th December Barbican Centre with Mariss
Jansons
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on
Messiaen in its 2007-8 season. A major musical figure of the 20thcentury,
Messiaen (1908-1992) 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 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.
ALSO AVAILABLE: RCO08003 Horizon 1
"one of the most spirited collages of every style under the sun to have come my way."
The Sunday Times
"Markus Stenz is a natural interpreter of these pieces, and I hope that Horizon 1 will have numerous
successors." Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone
harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010