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La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ


Reviews (7)


Klassik.com

d. 28. Feb. 2022

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Michael Loos (musikanmelder)

d. 28. Feb. 2022

"Ein riesiges Orchester, ein grosser Chor, sieben Solisten und über 90 Minuten Spieldauer - Mahlers Achte? Nein, obwohl der Aufwand durchaus vergleichbar ist - hier handelt es sich um ein Werk von Olivier Messiaen ... Wer die anspruchsvollen, virtuos-komplexen und dabei aber immer auch für den Hörer zugänglichen Kompositionen Messiaens schätzt, kann sich kaum eine bessere Veröffentlichung wünschen als die hier vorliegende".


Presto classical

2021

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2021

"Few performers are more familiar with the musical language of the French composer Olivier Messiaen than the American conductor Kent Nagano. Nagano has had Messiaen's orchestral works and oratorios in his programme for several decades now, and ... during the year 1982 Nagano spent his time with Messiaen in Paris, where not only an artistic relationship but also a close personal one developed between the two musicians. BR-KLASSIK has now released three masterpieces by the French composer with the magical sound, presented by Kent Nagano to the Munich concert audience in recent years as conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks: the oratorio 'La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ' (The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ) for chorus, seven solo instruments and orchestra, the song cycle 'Poèmes pour Mi' for soprano and orchestra, as well as 'Chronochromie' for large orchestra. These three live recordings document outstanding artistic events from the Munich concert programme of June 2017, July 2018 and February 2019".


MusicWeb international

2022 January

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Simon Thompson (musikanmelder)

2022 January

"Conductor Kent Nagano probably ranks as the most important interpreters of Messiaen's music that we've ever had ... It's hugely to Nagano's credit that he keeps the whole thing sounding coherent. He completely believes in it, and he burns with the clarity of vision that shows he wants us to believe in it, too. He is matched by playing of complete commitment from the unorthodox assemblage of the Bavarian RSO's orchestral musicians, all of whom play excellently ... The choir ... sound extraordinary, swelling like the bellows of a mighty organ, and doing full justice to the composer's interstellar vision. Aimard sounds terrific, too ... These are three great performances of three important Messiaen works, combining the gifts of two of his most important interpreters, and attractively presented, too".


Jyllands-posten

d. 29. July 2002

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d. 29. July 2002


Berlingske tidende

d. 19. June 2002

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d. 19. June 2002


The gramophone

2022 January

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Peter Quantrill

2022 January

"Editor's choice: Considered as a pocket history of Messiaen's large-scale writing, this set could hardly be improved upon ... All five commercial recordings of La Transfiguration live up to the ambitions of the piece, but Nagano's might be the finest yet ... Nagano's embedded connection with this musicis reinforced in the booklet by a personal memoir ... The set is not to be missed".