2008 Centenary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth
Centenary Association:
www.messiaen2008.com
On the occasion of this centenary, Durand Editions, Paris, wishes to remind
everyone to what extent
Olivier Messiaen remains one of the leading innovators
of XXth Century Music; they wish to underline – historically and culturally – the
setting in which Messiaen’s genius shows its impressive singularity.
In this commented catalogue, the reader will find an explanatory text for each
work published by Durand Editions, Paris.
May he be even more motivated to play these radiant “
XXth
Century Classics”!
To receive this bilingual document (French – English) please send an email via our Contact form.
2009 – 50th anniversary of the death of HEITOR VILLA- LOBOS 1887-1959
In the year 2009, a certain number of events will mark, the fifty years since the death of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Editions Max Eschig-Paris, publishers of a vast majority of works by the composer have just produced an exhaustive catalogue, available now on line on our website

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Two new CD releases:
Two
Villa-Lobos recordings honored
The April
“Diapason d’Or”, a monthly award by the French magazine Diapason that salutes excellent new releases, went to the first in a projected series of the complete
Choros by BIS, the Swedish independent record company (CD 1440). John Neschling (Arnold Schoenberg’s great nephew) conducts the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Brazilian Pianist Cristina Ortiz ably participates. The centerpiece of this volume is
Choros #11 for piano and orchestra (1928), a flowing composition of nearly 65 minutes that the composer himself recorded with the French National Radio Orchestra in Paris for EMI in 1958.
The second award,
“Diapason d’Or Arte”, conjointly administered by Diapason magazine and the Franco-German TV station Arte, was granted to the recording of
Symphony #10 "Amerindia" for tenor, baritone, bass, choir and orchestra (1952) by the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart under the baton of Carl St. Clair, music director of California’s Pacific Symphony. The recording of this ambitious work, written in commemoration of the quadricentennial of the foundation of the city of São Paulo, marks the conclusion of an integral symphony cycle recorded between 1997 and 2000 on the German label CPO (CPO 999 786-2). This prestigious award, announced in the May 2008 issue of Diapason, brings in international seal of approval to this glorious collection.
2008 - Centenary of the birth of composer Daniel-Lesur
Biography © Frank Langlois / translated by Jeremy Drake
Editions Durand / Editions Salabert / Editions Ricordi Paris
see "Rental catalogue Consultation"
Homage to Daniel-Lesur, Conference
Université de Paris-Sorbone (Paris IV)
February 8.9.10, 2008
Maison de la recherche, 28 rue Serpente, Paris VIe. Salle D 035.
Information: Association Daniel-Lesur at 33 1 47 04 64 54

© Photo X. Editions Salabert
« Daniel-Lesur with his back
to the sea, at home at Sarzeau
around 1990 »
About
Pascal Dusapin
Passion – World Premiere
Libretto by the composer (with collaboration of Rita de Letteriis)
Commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival
29 & 30 June 2008 / 2-4-6-8-10 July 2008 - Aix en Provence (France)
http://www.festival-aix.com
Opera – duration 90 min.
In Italian with French subtitles
Libretto by the composer (in association with Rita de Letteriis)
Commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
29-30 June 2008 / 2-4-6-8-10 July 2008 - Aix en Provence
Conductor Franck Ollu
Ensemble Modern Frankfurt
Ensemble Musicatreize (Direction Roland Hayrabedian)
Stage director and Stage design Giuseppe Frigeni
Co production with the Grand Theatre of Luxembourg and the Opera of Rouen Haute Normandie
«I’m looking at you, Ô my sun, I don’t recognize you anymore. »
LEI, Passion 7
“We all know this story. LEI and LUI go through rapture, moaning, doubt, desire, anger, fear, terror, joy and so many other passions. The shadow and the moon are watching the scene, where language and music arise out of the same inflexion. It reminds the Orpheus & Eurydice story. It’s also ours, even if it runs away. We don’t know it totally…” Pascal Dusapin
In his new opera, Pascal Dusapin draws his inspiration from Baroque Art proceedings in order to offer a mirror to our modern condition.
29-30 June 2008 / 2-4-6-8-10 July 2008 – Théâtre du Jeu de Paume / Aix en Provence
http://www.festival-aix.com
New perforamnces : Strasbourg (sept. 2008) – Rouen (January. 2009) – Paris (April 2009) – Luxembourg (January. 2010)
Broadcasted live on Radio Classique on 2 July 2008 at 8 pm (101.1 MHz)
Edition 2008 – Musica Strasbourg
(France)
Extenso, solo n°2 pour orchestre
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège Wallonie-Bruxelles – conductor, Pascal Rophé
20 September 2008 – 8:30 pm – Palais de la Musique et des Congrès, salle Érasme – Strasbourg
Memory - World Premiere
Bernard Foccroulle, organ
24 September 2008 – 7:30 pm – Église du Temple Neuf – Strasbourg
(Night Music’arte in tow parts beginning with a film entitled Bernard Foccroulle, un engagement pour l’opéra by Pierre Barré, Thierry Loreau and Françoise Wolff, duration 54 minutes ; concert after the film)
Étude n°2
La lune voilée les grenouilles brouillent l'eau et le ciel
Students of the Conservatoire de Strasbourg
25 September 2008 – 6 pm – Cité de la musique et de la danse, salle d’orchestre – Strasbourg
27 September 2008 – 3 pm – Cité de la musique et de la danse, salle d’orchestre – Strasbourg
Passion
Director, Giuseppe Frigeni – Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie – Ensemble Musicatreize – Conductor, Franck Ollu – Lei, soprano, Barbara Hannigan – Lui, baryton, Georg Nigl
27 September 2008 – 8:30 pm – Théâtre National de Strasbourg, salle Koltès
28 September 2008 – 4 pm – Théâtre National de Strasbourg, salle Koltès
Echo’s Bones - World Premiere
Ensemble Accroche Note – Soprano, Françoise Kubler
30 September 2008 – 6 pm – Auditorium France 3 Alsace – Strasbourg
http://www.festival-musica.org/
Artistic creation chair at the Collège de France (2007)
COMPOSER, Musique, paradoxe, flux(courses in French language)
The Inaugura lis now published by Editions Fayard/Collège de France
Book & DVD
http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/pub_acc/index.htm
New : Cours en vidéo sur le site du Collège de France :
http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/pas_dus/idecomposer_recomposerbrcomoed.htm
photo : credit ©
Vanessa Thaureau /
Salabert
Around
Eric Tanguy
Coming concerts
Prière, for female voice
Deuxième méditation, pour mixte choir (Création mondiale)
Salve Regina (premiere of the male choir version) Du fond caché de la clarté, for mixte choir
29 June 2008 - Reims, flâneries musicales, Chœur Cori spezzati, cond.: Olivier Opdebeeck
1st July 2008 – Paris, Église des Blancs-Manteaux
7 September 2008 Festival Septembre musical de l'Orne, Chœur Cori spezzati, cond.: Olivier Opdebeeck
Mes heures perdues
5 July 2008 - Reims, Flâneries musicales, Heng Shi, baryton, Yue Wu, piano
Passacaille
10 August 2008 - Festival de Chaillol, Delphine Lizé, piano
Mélancolie for violin & piano.
17 August 2008 - Festival du Périgord noir - l'Église Saint Amand de Coleye - Nemanja Radulovic, Laure Favre-Kahn
Les Roses de Saadi (Austrian premiere)
Patricia Petibon & Susan Manoff
13 September 2008 - Eisenstdadt (Austria)
http://www.eric-tanguy.com/
Around
Philippe Hersant
Coming concerts
Bamyan
26.06.2008 Detroit (USA) Anderson Theater
13.07.2008 Abbatiale de Sorèze
16.08.2008 Festival de Menton. Chapelle des Pénitents blancs. 6 pm
24.08.2008 Eglise de Maroeuil. Festival « Musique en roue libre »
Les ombres de Giverny
27.06.2008 Orford (Canada)
08.07.2008 Belgrade (Serbia)
Nachtgesang
28.06.2008 Yokohama (Japan)
Le chemin de Jérusalem
28.06.2008 Abbatiale de Sorèze
17.10.2008 Château de Loches. Festival « Sonates d’automne »
Léo et Marie, Éphémères, Bamyan, Caprices pour 2 violons,
03-04-05.07.2008 Les Champs libres. Rennes
Quatuor à cordes n°2
05.07.2008 Festival « les cordes en ballade ». Cathédrale de Viviers
Gambang (Hommage à François Couperin)
07.07.2008 Cambrai. Festival Juventus
Trio
19.07.2008 Église de la Grave. Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije
21.07.2008 Festival de Cordes-sur-ciel
22.08.2008 Église d’Avrincourt. Festival « Musique en roue libre »
12.10.2008 Château du Tremblay-sur-Mauldre (Les Journées Ravel à Montfort l’Amaury)
Ephémères (extracts)
19.07.2008 Cordes-sur-Ciel
02.08.2008 Deauville
Sonate pour violoncelle
20.07.2008 Église de la Grave. Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije
Trois poèmes d’Eichendorff
20.07.2008 Abbaye de Pontigny (Bourgogne)
Nostalgia
23.07.2008 Copenhague (Danmark)
In black
13.08.2008 Festival de Valloires
Choral
24.08.2008 Église de Maroeuil. Festival « Musique en roue libre »
Onze Caprices pour deux violoncelles
26.08.2008 Église de Mont-St-Eloi. Festival « Musique en roue libre »
Apparitions
27.08.2008 Église de Gravenchon (Festival de Giverny)
Tenebrae
27.08.2008 Église de Mont-St-Eloi. Festival « Musique en roue libre »
http://www.philippehersant.com/html/fr/agenda.php
About
Georges Aperghis
The 2007 Musical Composition Prize of FONDATION PRINCE PIERRE de Monaco has just been awarded to
Georges Aperghis for his work «
Wölfli-Kantata »
The World Premiere of his cantata took place on
July 22, 2006 in Stuttgart performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten and the SWR Vocalensemble ;
Co-commissioned by the Stuttgart Südwestrundfunk de Stuttgart and the Strasbourg Festival Musica, the work was also performed on September 22 at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg.
Around
Philippe Manoury
Partita I – French premiere
For viola solo & real time electronic
March 20, 2008 – TM+ Salle Flora Tristan – Nanterre (92)
Christophe Desjaurdins, viola
Grame & Ircam
Instants pluriels – World premiere
For instrumental ensemble
May 23, 2008 – TM+ / Maison de la Musique – Nanterre (92)
Ensemble TM+ conducted by
Laurent Cuniot
Cruel Spirals – French premiere
For soprano & instrumental ensemble
May 23, 2008 – TM+ / Maison de la Musique – Nanterre (92)
Rayanne Dupuis, soprano
Ensemble TM+ conducted by
Laurent Cuniot
CD
Jacques de la Presle (1888.1969)
Sonate for violin and piano
Suite en sol for string quartet
Pièce de concert for cello and piano
Editions Salabert
(first time on CD)
Editions Salabert
Detroit-Windsor Chamber Ensemble
Vincent D'Indy :
Chansons et Danses
Quintette
Solistes de l'Orchestre du Luxembourg
CD Timpani 1C1119
Istar
Poèmes des rivages
Diptyque méditerrannéen
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Dir : Emmanuel Krivine
CD Timpani 1C1101
Gabriel Pierné :
La musique de chambre vol.1
Koch, Khramouchin, Gérin, Schneider, Gavard etc.
Quatuor Louvigny, C. Ivaldi
CD Timpani 2C1110
La musique de chambre vol.2
Solistes de l'Orchestre du Luxembourg
C. Ivaldi, piano
CD Timpani 2C1111
Eric Tanguy
Cello concerto n° 1 & 2
Anne Gastinel, cello
Orchestre national de France, cond.
Alain Altinoglu
Cd Naïve
Nicolas Bacri
Quatuors n° 3,4,5 & 6.
Quatuor Psophos
Cd Arrese (distrib. Codaex) n° 2007.4
Piotr Moss
Visages
«
Concerto for oboe & orchestra »
Tomasz Miszka, oboe
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice
Cond :
Daniel Kawka
PRCD 078
Alexandre Tansman
Symphonies, volume 2
Symphonie n° 7 "lyrique" (worldwide first recording)
Musique pour orchestre (Symphonie n° 8)
Symphonie n° 9 (worldwide first recording)
Orchestre symphonique de Melbourne
Oleg Caetani
SACD Chandos 5054
Albert Roussel
Symphonie n°3
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève
Cd Naxos 8 570245
Paul Dukas
James, Touchais, Davies Danby
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers (S Betteridge)
Leon Botstein
2 CD Telarc 80680
Philippe Hersant
Musiques à un, deux ou trois
- Trio (Variations sur la Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont de Marin Marais)
- Huit duos for viola & bassoon
- In the dark*
- Six bagatelles for clarinet, viola and piano*
- Pavane for viola solo
- Apparitions for violin, cello and accordion*
Johan Farjot, piano
Arnaud Thorette, viola
Jean-Marc Fessard, clarinette
Pierre Colombet, Baptiste Lopez, violons
Raphaël Merlin, Fabrice Bihan, cello
Gilbert Audin, bassoon
Frédéric Guérouet, accordion
All these works are on sales : Catalogue Durand / Universal Music Publishing
* = first worldwide recordings
CD Triton 331152
Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Jean-Marc Fessard, Clarinet
Trio Poslkie
CD Dux 0459
Arthur Honegger
Sonate for cello and piano
Sonate for violin and cello
Christian Poltéra, cello
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Kathryn Stott, piano
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, cond :
Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen
CD bis n° 1617
Release of a boxed set of three CD - Transart Live
This boxed set devoted to Eric Tanguy works, is made of piano, chamber, symphonic music and of an unreleased piece for children choir entitled “Prière”.
Release CD at Naïve of the Concertos pour
violoncelle n°1 & 2
By Anne Gastinel
and the Orchestre National de France, dir: Alain Altinoglu
June 2007
Laurent Petitgirard
Dialogue pour alto et orchestre*
Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre+
Le Légendaire°
Quatuors à cordes n°1 & 2
Gérard Caussé, alto*
Gary Hoffmann, violoncelle+
Augustin Dumay, violin°
Orchestre de Bordeaux Aquitaine*
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo+
Choeur de la Radio Polonaise, Krakow°
Classic Polish Philharmonia dir:
Laurent Petitgirard
CD Naxos 8.557602
Alexandre Tansman
Musique à six
Trois pièces pour clarinette, harpe et quatuor à cordes
Triptyque pour quatuor à cordes
Jean-Marc Fessard, Clarinet & Bass clarinet
Eliane Reyes, Piano
Francis Pierre, Harp
Quatuor Elysée
CD Naxos 8.570235
Michel Decoust
Concerto pour violon et orchestre
De la gravitation suspendue des mémoires
L'application des lectrices aux champs
Raphael Oleg, violin
Irène Jarsky, soprano
Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
Luca Pfaff (1) , Gilbert Amy (3) Marcello Panni (2)
DENSITE 21
(Radio-France/ distribution Naïve)
Iannis Xenakis
Persephassa ; Psappha ; Pléïades, Dmaathen ; Komboï ; Kassandra ; Rebonds ; Okho ; Oophaa
Red Fish Blue Fish
Steven Schick, percussion and conductor
Just released from Mode Records (distributed by Abeille Musique), « Percussion works »
DVD
Pascal Dusapin
Faustus, The Last Night
Orchestre de l’opéra de Lyon,
Jonathan Stockhammer
Directed by Peter Mussbach
Film Director Yvon Gérault
Naïve, MO 782177
2007 CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARD
For the best creation of the Year:
http://lesvictoires.com/Victoires/classique/index.php
Choc du Monde de la musique
"
"The singers, the conductor, the orchestra, all excellent, mastered so fervently a score of a substantial wealth and of a rare tragic greatness.". "
Patrick Szernsnovicz
Le
Monde de la musique, February 2007
Arthur Honegger
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Editions Salabert)
Sylvie Testud
Eric Ruf
Mélanie Boisvert
Isabelle Cals
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Eric Huchet
Nicolas Testé
Choeur de l’Opéra National de Montpellier & d’Angers Nantes Opéra
Orchestre National de Montpellier LR
Conductor
Alain Altinoglu
Conception, Stage director by Jean-Paul Scarpitta
Georges Aperghis
« Storm beneath a skull » & « The little red ridding hood »
Films respectively by
Catherine
Maximoff and by
Jean Baptiste Mathieur
DVD co prod. Ideale Audience & Les films du présent.
102 minutes
http://www.ideale-audience.com
**** Le Monde de la Musique / February 2007
"The musicians are talking about their living with these scores, about their physical struggle with this torturated, distanced, strange universe of sounds – an incredible human experience said one of them”
Critics by Jérémie Szpirglas
Books (In French language)
Maurice Emmanuel
By Christophe Corbier
Collection Horizons -
Editions Bleu nuit éditeur
" Above and beyond a mere distinguished Hellenist – a description which s too often employed- Maurice
Emmanuel was also a Music History professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he influenced several
Generation of composers, including j. Alain, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux. "
Paul Dukas
by Simon-Pierre Perret & Marie-Laure Ragot
Editions Fayard, in its prestigious collection dedicated to great musicians
Durand is publisher of :
L'apprenti sorcier
Ariane et Barbe Bleue
La Péri
Polyeucte
Symphonie en ut
Villanelle
Michèle Reverdy
Composer de la musique aujourd'hui (Composing music nowadays)
This book gets you inside a music composer studio.
What the music imagination is? What set it off? How the composer is thinking? What the writing time is?
http://www.klincksieck.com/catalogue/?category_id=15
ANDRE JOLIVET - JEAN CLAUDE RISSET
Suntory Hall,on September 5, 2007
by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
under Kazuyoki Akiyama
PHASES by JC Risset (Salabert)
CINQ DANSES RITUELLES (Durand) / Jolivet
In the same series at the Suntory Recital Hall,
on November
8, 2007 : Risset MIRAGES (Amphion)
About Jolivet :
Just released
ECRITS volume II presented, and annotated by
Christine
Jolivet-Erlih
at Editions Delatour France.
Giacinto Scelsi : L’homme du son
Poems gathered and commented by
Luciano Martinis, in collaboration with
Sharon Kanach
Acte Sud 2006
Previously released in same edition: « Les Anges sont ailleurs... » Acte Sud 2006