Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles... ("From the Canyons to the Stars...") Seattle Symphony & Ludovic Morlot

• Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992): Part One:
• 1 Messiaen: Part One: Le desert (“The Desert”) (Stereo SR) 04:10
• 2 Messiaen: Part One: Les orioles (“The Orioles”) (Stereo SR) 06:10
• 3 Messiaen: Part One: Ce qui est écrit sur les étoiles (“That Which Is Written in the Stars...”) (Stereo SR) 06:15
• 4 Messiaen: Part One: Le cossyphe d'Heuglin (“The White-Browed Robin-Chat”) (Stereo SR) 04:15
• 5 Messiaen: Part One: Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte (“Cedar Breaks and the Gift of Awe”) (Stereo SR) 07:16
• Part Two:
• 6 Messiaen: Part Two: Appel interstellaire (“Interstellar Call”) (Stereo SR) 05:54
• 7 Messiaen: Part Two: Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange (“Bryce Canyons and the Red-Orange Rocks”) (Stereo SR) 13:50
• Part Three:
• 8 Messiaen: Part Three: Les ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldébaran (“The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran”) (Stereo SR) 08:50
• 9 Messiaen: Part Three: Le moqueur polyglotte (“The Mockingbird”) (Stereo SR) 09:32
• 10 Messiaen: Part Three: La grive des bois (“The Wood Thrush”) (Stereo SR) 04:57
• 11 Messiaen: Part Three: Omao, Leiothrix, Elepaio, Shama (“Hawaiian Thrush, Pekin Robin, Monarch Flycatcher, Shama Thrush”) (Stereo SR) 09:10
• 12 Messiaen: Part Three: Zion Park et la Cité celeste (“Zion Park and the Celestial City”) (Stereo SR) 10:03
• Total Runtime 01:30:22

Info for Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles... ("From the Canyons to the Stars...")

Für seine musikalische Rauminstallation Become Ocean gewann John Luther Adams (nicht zu verwechseln übrigens mit seinem nur Fast-Namensvetter John Adams) im Jahr 2014 den Pulitzer-Preis für Musik. In dem Stück verband er Minimalismus in seiner reinsten Form mit komplexen Mehrschichttechniken und Echo-Wirkungen in der Tradition von Charles Ives zu einer im positivsten Sinne sonderbaren Musik, die eine „Harmonia Mundi“, eine „Harmonie der Welt“ auszustrahlen schien. Dabei wollte der Komponist bereits mit Become Ocean auch auf das zentrale Problem unserer Zeit hin-weisen, den Klimawandel. Klima-wandel in Musik ist auch seine neue Komposition Become Desert geworden, das erneut als Auftragskomposition für das Seattle Symphony Orchestra entstand, das bereits Become Ocean aus der Taufe gehoben und für die Surround-Einspielung des Stücks den weltrenommierten Grammy Award erhalten hatte. Become Ocean wurde in der Folge zu einem weltweiten Bestseller und ist heute das am meisten verkaufte Album des Cantaloupe-Labels. Wieder scheint Adams' Musik bei Become Desert über den Dingen zu schweben: Orchester und Chor spielen (geleitet von Chefdirigent Ludovic Morlot zusammen mit mehreren Assistenzdirigenten) in verschiedenen Teilen der akustisch so gelobten Benaroya Hall von Seattle.

John Luther Adams untermauert mit Become Desert erneut seinen Ruf, einer der bedeutenden und wegweisenden Komponisten unserer Zeit zu sein, dessen Blick auf die Zukunft der Musik gerichtet zu sein scheint und nicht auf ihre Vergangenheit, dessen Kunst im Hier und Jetzt aktuelle Themen der lebenden Generationen aufgreift und diese in Bezug setzt zum Sein und Werden eines jeden Einzelnen von uns im unermesslichen Gefüge des Kosmos.

Seattle Symphony
Ludovic Morlot, Musikalische Leitung

Seattle Symphony
Founded in 1903, the Seattle Symphony is one of America’s leading symphony orchestras and is internationally acclaimed for its innovative programming and extensive recording history. Under the leadership of Music Director Ludovic Morlot since September 2011, the Symphony is heard live from September through July by more than 300,000 people. It performs in one of the finest modern concert halls in the world — the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall — in downtown Seattle. Its extensive education and community-engagement programs reach over 100,000 children and adults each year. The Seattle Symphony has a deep commitment to new music, commissioning many works by living composers each season, including John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music and a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. The orchestra has made more than 140 recordings and has received 18 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. In 2014 the Symphony launched its in-house recording label, Seattle Symphony Media.

Ludovic Morlot
As the Seattle Symphony’s Music Director, Ludovic Morlot has been received with extraordinary enthusiasm by musicians and audiences alike, who have praised him for his deeply musical interpretations, his innovative programming and his focus on community collaboration. From 2012 to 2014 Morlot was also Chief Conductor of La Monnaie, one of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses.

In the U.S., Ludovic Morlot has conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony. Additionally, he has conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.

Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship. Ludovic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his significant contributions to music. He is Chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School of Music.

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