Edgard Varese - Orchestral Works Vol.2 | Naxos 8557882

Edgard Varese - Orchestral Works Vol.2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557882

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Maria Grochowska (flute)
Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
Christopher Lyndon-Gee (piano)
Men’s Voices of Camerata Silesia
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Works

Varese, Edgard

Ameriques
Dance for Burgess
Density 21.5
Ecuatorial
Hyperprism
Ionisation
Nocturnal
Tuning Up
Un grand sommeil noir

Artists

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Maria Grochowska (flute)
Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
Christopher Lyndon-Gee (piano)
Men’s Voices of Camerata Silesia
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

About

The works on this recording span Varèse’s entire career, containing his sole surviving early composition, Un Grand Sommeil Noir, and his last, unfinished work, Nocturnal, brilliantly and seamlessly completed by the composer’s disciple and assistant during the last seventeen years of his life, the composer Chou Wen-Chung.

Chiefly, though, the recording features the world première recording of the original version of Amériques, for a massive orchestra of 155 players, recorded immediately following a rare public performance at the Warsaw Philharmonic (only its second since the 1920s) as part of the 2005 Warsaw Autumn Festival.

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