Jonathan Harvey …towards a pure land pour grand orchestre Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris Ensemble intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, direction Enregistré en direct à la Cité de la musique le 30.01.2016.
The first beautiful music than I and my little sister (she plays the cello) heard from Harvey was the incredible "Bird Concerto". The richness of music textures produced by so many instruments is simply amazing.
I conducted a choral piece by Harvey a couple of times with my parish choir and it was a superbly wonderful experience to work with music by this composer, now sadly gone.
I have listened to the contemporary classical music of many geniuses. adams, boulez, reich, lachenmann, yun, takemitsu, furrer, jarell, ligeti, fedele, grisey, ferneyough, birtwistle etc... But I've never been as touched as this time...
Quite the eclectic group of modernists covering a very wide range of styles and world views. I am learning about composers I might not otherwise have engaged with were it not for this ensemble and conductor. To my mind the most obvious influence in this piece is Olivier Messaien.
Excellent! On jouait rarement des pièces de ce niveau quand j'étais étudiant au CNSM (il y a quelques années maintenant...). Mais j'ai tout de même une préférence pour Speakings.
L'ambiance et l'environnement qu'il crée est tout simplement incroyable, j'ai beaucoup aimé cette pièce, si c'est moi j'aimerais aussi composer une pièce comme ça lol
