Horizon 2 -A Tribute to Messiaen : G.Benjamin / Metzmacher / Concertgebouw Orchestra

RCO Live
Horizon 2: A Tribute to Olivier Messiaen

deliverycost Conductors: George Benjamin & Ingo Metzmacher
Works by: Dukas/Van Keulen, Messiaen, Dalbavie en Zuidam

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 work 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.

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. ( RCO Live )

Dukas / van Keulen: La Plainte, au loin, du faune… **
Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliees**
Dalbavie: La source d’un regard**
Messiaen: Chronochromie**
Zuidam - Adam*

** conductor: George Benjamin
* conductor: Ingo Metzmacher