From the Canyons to the Stars: The Music of Olivier Messiaen
George Benjamin
Tue 21 Oct 2008, 7:30pm
Royal Festival Hall, London
George Benjamin conductor
| Xenakis | Pithoprakta |
|---|---|
| Benjamin, George | Sudden Time |
| Ligeti | Atmospheres |
| Messiaen | Chronochromie |
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Messiaen’s love of nature reached overflow with Chonochromie – meaning ‘the colour of time’. A ten-part homage to the Alps, full of luminous percussion and shifting dense string parts, it is an extremely elaborate and brilliantly written work. Both George Benjamin and Iannis Xenakis were pupils of Messiaen in Paris and their respective works performed this evening also explore time and colour whilst Ligeti’s Atmosphères focuses on the absence of time.
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