A Tribute to Oliver Messiaen | CD review

RCO LiveTaken from Amsterdam concerts conducted by George Benjamin and Ingo Metzmacher to mark the centenary of Messiaen's birth in 2008, performances of two of the French composer's works are interleaved with recordings of the premieres of three commissions marking the anniversary. The slightest of the new works is perhaps the most interesting – a tactful orchestration by Geert van Keulen of La Plainte, au loin du Faune …, the memorial to Claude Debussy that Paul Dukas published as...

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