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This 2024 release featuring Messiaen's vast Turangalîla Symphonie is a landmark event in several ways. It marks conductor Gustavo Gimeno's premiere recording with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra's first recording for the Harmonia Mundi label. The album, recorded live over two performances at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, captures the first Toronto Symphony performance of the work since its Seiji Ozawa days; ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget was flown in from France, her instrument broken down and shipped in ten separate boxes, and the all-important piano part is played by Marc-André Hamelin, arguably Canada's top keyboard star of the day. For all the star power, the main attraction is simply the performance itself, catching the vast scope of this work with its loose program based on the tale of Tristan and Isolde. Gimeno gets top-notch playing from his percussion section in rhythmically difficult music. Hamelin's piano passages are crackling, and the hugely diverse score, whose languages range from serialism to Indian and Indonesian classical music to jazz-inflected passages, is handled by Gimeno and his players with absolute confidence and a sense of the work's overarching structure. An impressive achievement, with fine sonics from Harmonia Mundi engineers working in a new venue. This release made classical best-seller charts in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Turangalîla-Symphony (Olivier Messiaen)
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marc-Andre Hamelin, MainArtist - Nathalie Forget, MainArtist - Gustavo Gimeno, Conductor, MainArtist
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Album review
This 2024 release featuring Messiaen's vast Turangalîla Symphonie is a landmark event in several ways. It marks conductor Gustavo Gimeno's premiere recording with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra's first recording for the Harmonia Mundi label. The album, recorded live over two performances at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, captures the first Toronto Symphony performance of the work since its Seiji Ozawa days; ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget was flown in from France, her instrument broken down and shipped in ten separate boxes, and the all-important piano part is played by Marc-André Hamelin, arguably Canada's top keyboard star of the day. For all the star power, the main attraction is simply the performance itself, catching the vast scope of this work with its loose program based on the tale of Tristan and Isolde. Gimeno gets top-notch playing from his percussion section in rhythmically difficult music. Hamelin's piano passages are crackling, and the hugely diverse score, whose languages range from serialism to Indian and Indonesian classical music to jazz-inflected passages, is handled by Gimeno and his players with absolute confidence and a sense of the work's overarching structure. An impressive achievement, with fine sonics from Harmonia Mundi engineers working in a new venue. This release made classical best-seller charts in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:37
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Gimeno Marc-André Hamelin Nathalie Forget
- Composer: Olivier Messiaen
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music Symphonies
2024 harmonia mundi 2024 harmonia mundi / Toronto Symphony Orchestra
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