Roayl Concertgebouw Archive

“Horizon 7” – Royal Concertgebouw Orch. with multiple composers and conductors “Horizon 7” – Royal Concertgebouw Orch. with multiple composers and conductors – RCO Live – RCO Live

by Audiophile Audition | Jun 22, 2016 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

“Horizon 7” – Royal Concertgebouw Orch. with multiple composers and conductors. (See TrackList below) RCO Live multichannel SACD RCO 16003 TT: 74:00 (5/6/16) [Distr. by Naxos] ****: Contemporary music superbly played and well-recorded. The seventh release in RCO Live’s Horizon series features world premieres recorded during three concert seasons. Magnus Lindberg’s Era – a birthday present from the Concertgebouw to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – dates from the 2012-2013 season. Both Tan Dun’s double bass concerto The Wolf and Richard Rijnvos’s fuoco e fumo about the 1996 destruction by fire of the Venetian opera house La Fenice, are from 2015. The program opens with a recording made in September 2015, when composer George Benjamin himself conducted his song cycle Dream of the Song. All these contemporary works are densely composed and all will demand attention from the listener.  The Benjamin work, Dream of the Song is a nice mix of vocal and orchestral. It deals with themes both mundane and cosmic. As a whole, it’s a satisfying and emotional piece. Era, by Magnus Lindberg has some elements of Sibelius, but it’s an original, emotional, and at times a thrilling work. Finally, we have two shorter works, the first by Richard […]