On the occasion of this centenary, Durand Editions, Paris, wishes to remind everyone to what extent Olivier Messiaen remains one of the leading innovators of XXth Century Music; they wish to underline – historically and culturally – the setting in which Messiaen’s genius shows its impressive singularity.
In this commented catalogue, the reader will find an explanatory text for each work published by Durand Editions, Paris.
May he be even more motivated to play these radiant “XXth Century Classics”!

 

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Textes de PL Aimard, P Albèra, G Amy, P Boulez
MW Chung, M Fano, P Hill, B Jolas, O Latry,
FB Mâche, L Mallié, G Vinay
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In the year 2009, a certain number of events will mark, the fifty years since the death of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Editions Max Eschig-Paris, publishers of a vast majority of works by the composer have just produced an exhaustive catalogue, available now on line on our website

Two new CD releases:

Two Villa-Lobos recordings honored

The April "Diapason d'Or", a monthly award by the French magazine Diapason that salutes excellent new releases, went to the first in a projected series of the complete Choros by BIS, the Swedish independent record company (CD 1440). John Neschling (Arnold Schoenberg's great nephew) conducts the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Brazilian Pianist Cristina Ortiz ably participates. The centerpiece of this volume is Choros #11 for piano and orchestra (1928), a flowing composition of nearly 65 minutes that the composer himself recorded with the French National Radio Orchestra in Paris for EMI in 1958.




The second award, "Diapason d'Or Arte", conjointly administered by Diapason magazine and the Franco-German TV station Arte, was granted to the recording of Symphony #10 "Amerindia" for tenor, baritone, bass, choir and orchestra (1952) by the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart under the baton of Carl St. Clair, music director of California's Pacific Symphony. The recording of this ambitious work, written in commemoration of the quadricentennial of the foundation of the city of São Paulo, marks the conclusion of an integral symphony cycle recorded between 1997 and 2000 on the German label CPO (CPO 999 786-2). This prestigious award, announced in the May 2008 issue of Diapason, brings in international seal of approval to this glorious collection.