Markevitch: Complete Orchestra Music, Vol.1

1. Le Nouvel Age, for orchestra
Composed by Igor Markevitch
Performed by Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee

2. Sinfonietta in F major
Composed by Igor Markevitch
Performed by Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee

3. Cinema Overture
Composed by Igor Markevitch
Performed by Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Tracks:

Le Nouvel Age: Ouverture
Le Nouvel Age: Adagio
Le Nouvel Age: Hymne
Sinfonietta In F: Allegro moderato
Sinfonietta In F: Allegretto marcato - Andantino - Allegretto
Sinfonietta In F: Andante
Sinfonietta In F: Allegro risoluto
Cinema-Ouverture

Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 5

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Pity for the music

Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 5

Manufacturer: Marco Polo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000542H8
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

La Taille De L'Homme: Prld - Arnhem PO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee
La Taille De L'Homme: Chor Orne - Lucy Shelton
La Taille De L'Homme: Son I - Arnhem PO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee
La Taille De L'Homme: Son II - Lucy Shelton
La Taille De L'Homme: Son III - Arnhem PO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee
La Taille De L'Homme: Son IV - Lucy Shelton

Customer Reviews:

Pity for the music.......2001-04-24

The booklet describes Markevitch as a genius and this composition is something we've waited for for years and we've to be sorry never heard it before. I'm not so sure.

In the eighties, while I was a musical student, I heard the first performance of this piece in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw and played by his excellent chamber group: the Schonberg Ensemble. Then, I was totally overwhelmed by this music and I wanted to learn the score by heart.

Today, after much more studying, I find this music not so satisfying anymore. Possible the performance doesn't help, the singing is not first rate and that's one thing the music needs, but I couldn't find the new things again I thought this music had.

I dislike categorizing music - sounds like this and that, seems to be so and so - but for me this is rundown Prokofiev with a Hindemith sauce.

Busy writing for all the instruments in all but one part; I find the first movement the most likeable, the most telling, perhaps the place where you can hear what an extraordinary talent Markevitch was.

The soloists of the Arnhem 'A Bridge Too Far' Philharmonic (what's in a name - over here they are called Het Gelders Orkest but that doesn't sell) is - except the singing - very convincing.

Thank you Marco Polo!

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