From the Canyons to the Stars: The Music of Olivier Messiaen

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George Benjamin

George Benjamin

Tue 21 Oct 2008, 7:30pm
Royal Festival Hall, London

George Benjamin conductor

XenakisPithoprakta
Benjamin, GeorgeSudden Time
LigetiAtmospheres
MessiaenChronochromie

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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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