Markevitch - Complete Orchestral Works Vol.2 | Naxos 8572152

Markevitch - Complete Orchestral Works Vol.2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572152

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents

Artists

Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Works

Markevitch, Igor

Cinema-Ouverture
Le nouvel age
Sinfonietta in F major

Artists

Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

About

Igor Markevitch’s renunciation of composition at the age of 29 in favour of a conducting career remains a mystery, given the rapturous responses his youthful music inspired. The extraordinary works on this disc are a case in point.

The Sinfonietta is his first truly assured composition, the Cinéma Overture transforms the Blue Danube waltz into a modernist mini-masterpiece, while Le Nouvel Âge is one of his most intense, tightly constructed works, rich in polyrhythms and brimming with mysticism.

World Premiere Recordings.

A very valuable document… Lyndon-Gee conducts with a real feeling for the idiom, and supplies very full booklet notes.” BBC Music Magazine on Vol.1

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