DES CANYONS AUX ETOILES

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Label
LPO
Release Date
March 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      MESSIAEN / LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCH / ESCHENBACH
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      854990001833
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LPO83.2
    • LABEL
      LPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Le desert

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Ryan, Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    2. II. Les orioles

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    3. III. Ce qui est ecrit sur les etoiles

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: John Ryan, Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    4. IV. Le cossyphe d'Heuglin

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tzimon Barto

    5. V. Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    6. VI. Appel interstellaire

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: John Ryan

    7. VII. Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    8. VIII. Les ressuscites et le chant de l'etoile Aldebaran

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    9. IX. Le moqueur polyglotte

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tzimon Barto

    10. X. La grive des bois

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    11. XI. Omao, Leiothrix, Elepaio, Shama

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

    12. XII. Zion Park et la Cite Celeste

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Andrew Barclay, Erika Öhman, Tzimon Barto

      Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach


• Commissioned to celebrate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence, Olivier Messiaen's Des canyons aux etoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) was inspired by the composer's tours around Utah's magnificent landscapes. • The work's unusual instrumentation creates a texture that evokes the majesty and loneliness of the landscape, as well as it's inhabitant birds with astonishing effect. • This recording presents a rare opportunity to hear a work not available extensively on record and infrequently performed live. • Recorded in concert at Royal Festival Hall on 2 November 2013, as part of Southbank Centre's The Rest Is Noise year-long festival of 20th c. music, inspired by Alex Ross's bestselling book of the same name. • Christoph Eschenbach, a champion of 20th - 21st c. music, has gained a reputation as a key interpreter of more unusual and challenging works. • Pianist Tzimon Barto is one of America's foremost pianists, and has enjoyed a close musical collaboration with Christoph Eschenbach for 25 years. • "... it's the teeming richness of the whole that overwhelms, and Eschenbach and his players had the measure of the music's vast perspectives." (Evening Standard)