연주: 로열 콘서트헤보우 오케스트라, 조지 벤자민, 잉고 메츠마허(지휘)

최신작품을 소개하는 로열 콘서트헤보우의 역사적 행보 가운데 정수를 모은 <호라이즌> 두 번째 음반은 메시앙에게 헌정되고 있다.

<잊혀진 제물>, <크로노크로미> 등 메시앙의 풍성한 음향세계와 함께 <아기예수를 바라보는 시선>에 대한 오마쥬인 달바비에 <시선의 근원>과 역시 메시앙에게 헌정된 주이담의 <아담 간주곡> 초연 실황을 감상할 수 있다.

또한 드뷔시에게 헌정된 뒤카의 피아노 작품 <목식의 아득한 비명> 오케스트라 버전이 본 음반을 통해 최초로 공개된다.

Gramophone Magaine - Editor's Choice, March 2010

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Dukas
1  La Plainte, Au Loin, Du Faune... 
   
Messiaen
2  Les Offrandes Oubliées: Très Lent   2
3  Les Offrandes Oubliées: Vif
4  Les Offrandes Oubliées: Extrêmement Lent

Dalbavie
5  La Source D'un Regard  

Messiaen
6  Chronochromie: Introduction 
7  Chronochromie: Strophe I
8  Chronochromie: Antistrophe I 
9  Chronochromie: Strophe II 
10  Chronochromie: Antistrophe II
11  Chronochromie: Épôde 
12  Chronochromie: Coda 

Zuidam
13  Adam-Interludes: I. O, Knaegend Naberou
14  Adam-Interludes: II. Wy Zagen U Endtloos Schooner Dan de Zon
15  Adam-Interludes: III. Dat de Paradysgront Dreunt 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & George Benjamin
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Ingo Metzmacher  



The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on Messiaen in its 2007-8 season. A major musical figure of the 20th-century, Messiaen (1908-1992) created an entirely unique musical oeuvre 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 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, including three premières of works commissioned by the RCO: Geert van Keulen's orchestration of Paul Dukas's La plainte, au loin, du faune…, Marc-André Dalbavie's La source d'un regard (The Source of a Look) and Robert Zuidam's Adam Interludes.

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.