Pierre Henry: La Dixième Symphonie, Hommage à Beethoven

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PIERE HENRY
Pierre Henry: La Dixième Symphonie, Hommage à Beethoven
Bruno Mantovani, Marzena Diakun, Benoît Rameau, Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Jeune Chœur de Paris, Chœur de Radio France Orchestre Philharmoni

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 11 September 2020

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Pierre Henry, a supreme innovator in the field of sound aesthetics, opened the gates to many other musical universes through the applications of his technological research. Fascinated by Beethoven from an early age, he composed a 'Tenth Symphony': 'It's not the one Beethoven made sketches for', he said. 'Nor is it a synthesis of the nine. It is essentially a combinatorial work. It's also a tribute to the man who hoped to exceed the limits of the orchestra. Perhaps a way of painting my portrait (our portrait) through this music and the influence it has had on mine. It is a dreamlike, logical and respectful trajectory through what these symphonies contain and suggest. The work deliberately uses as "raw material" only notes, groups or motifs from the nine symphonies.'

There are three electroacoustic versions (1979, 1988, 1998), but it is the unpublished symphonic version that is presented here.

It was premiered in November 2019 at the Cité de la Musique in the Philharmonie de Paris, by three orchestras, two choirs and three conductors: the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, the Chœur de Radio France and Le Jeune Chœur de Paris, under the direction of Pascal Rophé, Bruno Mantovani and Marzena Diakun. Pierre Henry died on 5 July 2017. He would have loved to have heard his Dixième Symphonie de Beethoven as we are now able to.

"This fascinating, or bizarre, disc is not another realisation of Beethoven's sketches for a Tenth Symphony, but a collage-compilation in eight movements...Henry, cofounder of musique concrète, uses only Beethoven material to commit this artistic "crime" (his word). Clearly, crime pays."
- The Sunday Times

Tracks:

Henry, P: La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven [1:14:03]

I. Allegro con brio
II. Scherzo
III. Allegro molto
IV Andante
V. Rondo
VI. Presto
VII. Comme une fantaisie
VIII. Finale