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LANCINO, T.: Requiem (Grant-Murphy, Gubisch, Skelton, Courjal, Radio France Choir, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Inbal)

Composer(s):Lancino, Thierry
Artist(s)
Genre Classical Music
Category Choral - Sacred
Catalogue 8.572771
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
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USD 9.99
 

 
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Thierry Lancino’s vast Requiem is a challenging and eloquent contemplation on human mortality which the composer describes as ‘both an epic fresco and sacred ceremony’. In a paradox which brings the Christian into dialogue with the Pagan, Lancino presents an exploration of Death and Time which is both human and relevant, as well as posing eternal and unanswerable questions. This recording captures a unique and moving event, performed by a stellar cast of artists and France’s leading choir and orchestra.


   




Review By C. Michael Porter,Choral Journal,November 2012

This recording accurately conveys Lancino’s angst and conflicting vision of death through both a stellar performance and transparent recording engineering. Although a composition of this style may be trying to modern listeners, Inbal’s direction provides the necessary drive and, subsequently, emotional release found in Lancino’s work; at no point did this reviewer perceive stasis in the musical momentum. The result is a recording that draws the listener into the dramatically rich libretto by providing precise and moving musical moments. Moreover, special commendations go to Inbal and chorusmaster Brauer for their ability to draw clear harmonic and melodic transparency from a difficult and dense score; one that could easily have produced a muddied performance if it

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Review By C. Michael Porter,Choral Journal,November 2012

Cet enregistrement transmet avec justesse l’angoisse de Lancino ainsi que sa vision conflictuelle de la mort, grâce à une exécution éblouissante d’une part et de l’autre une transparence rendue par la technique d’enregistrement. Quoique l’écoute d’une œuvre de ce type puisse paraître ardue à un auditeur actuel, la direction de Inbal fournit l’énergie nécessaire, et, cela en découle, libère l’émotion qui est contenue dans l’œuvre de Lancino. À aucun moment celui qui écrit ces lignes n’a perçu de ralentissement dans le flot musical. Le résultat est un enregistrement qui entraîne l’auditeur

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Review By Fernando Remiro,Ritmo,April 2012

Escribir un Requiem es un desafío al Rex tremendae maiestatis, un combate ciego con la música como única vela, que intenta retorcer con su temblor las marmóreas palabras de la liturgia. Thierry Lancino redobla el desafío haciendo girar el suyo sobre la Sibila de Ovidio (teste David cum Sybilla), que teniendo la inmortalidad busca la muerte, en el mayor acto de hybris imaginable. Y en el choque, en el eco del grito, la música dibuja la medida de lo humano, en una partitura de ricas resonancias (desde Messiaen a Saariaho, la percusión oriental y las cuerdas de sabor mediterráneo) que desvelan a un Dios matemático y cabalístico en el Mors stupebit, violento y tenebroso en el Dies Irae, y majestuoso y cegador en el

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Review By Fernando Remiro,Ritmo,April 2012

Writing a Requien is a challenge “à la” Rex Tremendae Maiestatis. It is a blind battle which attempts to twist words of marble (the liturgy) with one’s own quake, holding music as the only candle. Thierry Lancino takes on this challenge, making his Requiem revolve around Ovid’s Sibila (teste David cum Sybilla) who, having immortality, seeks death in the greatest act of imaginable hubris. And in the crash, in the echo of a scream, the music sketches the measure of that which is human. It is a score rich in resonance (from Messiaen to Saariaho, oriental percussion and strings of Mediterranean flavor) which reveals a mathematical and cabalistic God in the “Mors Stupebit”, violent and sinister in the “Dies Irae”, and

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Review By Fernando Remiro,Ritmo,April 2012

Ecrire un Requiem est un défi « à la » Rex Tremendae Maiestatis. C’est une combat aveugle qui tente de tordre des mots de marbre (la liturgie) avec son propre tremblement, en tenant la musique comme unique chandelle. Thierry Lancino relève ce défi, en centrant son Requiem sur la Sibylle d’Ovide (teste David cum Sybilla), qui, après avoir obtenu l’immortalité, cherche la mort, dans un des plus grands actes de désespoir imaginable. Et, dans cette explosion, tel l’écho d’un cri, la musique en donne une dimension humaine. C’est une partition riche en résonance (de Messiaen à Saariaho, percussions orientales et cordes aux parfums

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Review By Russell Platt,The New Yorker,March 2012

recorded with commitment by Eliahu Inbal and the Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France (Naxos); it’s a deeply institutional piece, a kind of compositional grand projet that shows off the new musical eclecticism of the French establishment. © 2012 The New Yorker



Review By Lawrence Schenbeck,PS Tracks,March 2012

Viscerally exciting, and extremely well-crafted. The “Sanctus” demonstrates Lancino’s masterful use of textures and sonorities, à la Penderecki.

Conductor Eliahu Inbal’s soloists, especially mezzo Nora Gubisch (the Sibyl), sing passionately and well; orchestra and chorus deliver the goods also. And the multichannel mix is quite good, really helping unclot the big sounds in this big piece. © 2012 PS Tracks Read complete review



Review By Philip Greenfield,American Record Guide,March 2012

Lancino’s idiom is dark, bleak, and unremittingly intense. Moments of repose are few—and tinged with sadness when they do occur. Lancino shows a deft touch for orchestration when he wants his instruments to do something special.

Lancino is a master at terracing his dramatic effects. Just listen to the hair-raising entrance by the soprano section at ‘Kyrie eleison’. It proceeds out of the Sibyl’s cries for death, and the combined voices wind up sounding like the shrieking of harpies out for blood. The effect is electrifying. The ‘Dies Irae’ explodes in cataclysmic crescendos redolent of Verdi and Berlioz, with jagged syncopations adding even more terror to the shocking predictions of the liturgy.

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Review By Philip Greenfield,American Record Guide,March 2012

Le langage de Thierry Lancino est sombre, austère et implacablement intense. Les moments de repos sont peu nombreux—et, lorsqu’ils arrivent, sont teintés de tristesse. Lancino démontre un savoir-faire habile dans l’orchestration lorsqu’il veut donner un rôle particulier à ses instruments.

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Review By Michaël Sebaoun,Classica,March 2012

Le Requiem du compositeur français Thierry Lancino est une commande de Radio France, de la Fondation Koussevitzky pour la Musique et du ministère français de la Culture. Il fut créé à la salle Pleyel le 8 janvier 2010. Le compositeur découvre une présence païenne au sein du texte liturgique de la messe des morts : “Jour de colère … comme l’ont prédit David et la Sibylle”. Lancino souhaite alors instaurer un dialogue entre la Sibylle païenne et le David biblique, et demande à l’écrivain Pascal Quignard d’écrire un livret (Éditions Galilée) en français, qui sera mêlé avec des oracles grecs

Dissonances extrêmes, métalliques, ligetiennes, qui basculent vers une grande souplesse mélodique (Prologue), cris d’angoisse et cordes stridentes (Kyrie), échos de Verdi (Dies Irae), dépouillement extrême, ambitus étouffé (soprano d’Ingemisco), émotion poignante (LacrimosaI). Une tension obsessionnelle, sombre,assure l’unité de l’œuvre, effective dans l’orchestre monumental ou dans le registre de l’intime. Ce très beau Requiem, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, dirigé par Eliahu Inbal, en fait, selon les vœux du compositeur, “une fresque épique”.

À posséder.

[Très bonne prise de son de concert] © 2012 Classica

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