Christopher Lyndon-Gee / Pnrso -Arcana / Integrales / Deserts -Naxos CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Arcana"

02. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Octandre: I. Assez lent"

03. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Octandre: II. Tres vif et nerveaux"

04. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Octandre: III. Grave"

05. Maryse Castets "Offrandes: Chanson de La-haut"

06. Maryse Castets "Offrandes: La Croix du Sud"

07. Christopher Lyndon-Gee "Integrales"

08. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts"

09. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts: First Electronic Interpolation (beginning)"

10. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts: First Electronic Interpolation (conclusion)"

11. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts: Second Electronic Interpolation (beginning)"

12. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts: Second Electronic Interpolation (conclusion)"

13. Christopher Lyndon-Gee "Deserts: Third Electronic Interpolation (beginning)"

14. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra "Deserts: Third Electronic Interpolation (conclusion)"

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The thematic material of Arcana (1925-27) for orchestra - the score of which is prefaced by a quotation from the sixteenth-century Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus - is derived from the varied repetition of a handful of motifs including a rising tritone/rising tone figure also used in Intégrales. The première was given at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on 8th April 1927 conducted by Leopold Stokowski. The title of Octandre (1923) refers to it's scoring for an octet of flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and double bass ('octandrous' refers to a flower having eight stamens). The only work of Varèse to follow a traditional division of movements, namely Assez lent, Très vif et nerveux, Animé et jubilatoire, it grows out of the material stated by the oboe in the opening bars, with Varèse treating the octet essentially as a timbral pool from which he extracts textures of a quite startling originality.

Recorded on April 25-29 (tracks 1-6) and May 13 & 14 (tracks 7-14), 2000, in the Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall in Katowice. From liner notes about Déserts: "The work's four instrumental sections can be played alone or, as on this recording, juxtaposed with three electronic interludes." Cover art: Tim Smith's 'Under the Radar and Across the Map'.

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8554820

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