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Var�se: The Complete Works [Box set]

~ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Audio CD (9 Feb 2004)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Box set
Label: Universal Classics
ASIN: B0001CKR28

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Disc: 1
1. Un grand sommeil noir - Version for voice & piano - Mireille Delunsch, Fran�ois Kerdoncuff
2. 1. Chanson de L�-haut (poem by Vincente Huidobro) - Sarah Leonard, Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
3. 2. La croix du sud (poem by Jos� Juan Tablada) - Sarah Leonard, Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
4. Hyperprism - Revised Richard Sarks 1986 - Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
5. 1. Assez lent - Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
6. 2. Tr�s vif et nerveux - Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
7. 3. Grave/Anim� et jubilatoire - Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
8. Int�grales - Revised & Ed. Chou Wen-Chung 1980 - Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
9. Ecuatorial - Corrections from original m/s by Chou Wen-Chung - Kevin Deas, Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly
10. Ionisation - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Asko Ensemble
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Disc: 2
1. Tuning up - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
2. Am�riques - Original version. Ed. Professor Chou Wen-Chung - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
3. Po�me Electronique - (Pre-Recorded Tape)
4. Arcana - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
5. Nocturnal - original version - Sarah Leonard, Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
6. Un grand sommeil noir - Orchestral version arr. Antony Beaumont - Mireille Delunsch, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

On this CD:

Tuning Up
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Am�riques
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Po�me �lectronique
Composed by Edgar Var�se
with Edgard Var�se
Arcana
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Nocturnal
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Prague Philharmonic Choir, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
with Sarah Leonard
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
(Un) grand sommeil noir
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
with Mireille Delunsch
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
(Un) grand sommeil noir
Composed by Edgar Var�se
with Mireille Delunsch, Fran�ois Kerdoncuff
Offrandes
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
with Sarah Leonard
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Hyperprism
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Octandre
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Int�grales
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Ecuatorial
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
with Kevin Deas
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Ionisation
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Densit� 21.5
Composed by Edgar Var�se
with Jacques Zoon
D�serts
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Dance for Burgess
Composed by Edgar Var�se
Performed by Asko Ensemble
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly

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4.0 out of 5 stars Joyful Cacophony, 28 Dec 2007

By	N. E. M. Goulder (Saffron Walden, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you fancy taking on one of the extraordinary imaginations of the 1920's and 1930's, then this is a very tempting pair of discs. Varese wrote extremely sparingly - like Webern, Barraque, Grisey and a few other important voices, his complete output fits onto just two or three CD's. The big works - Ameriques especially - are going to be perennial classics, for no one before or since has had that freshness of spirit combined with a masterly sense of symphonic drama.
This set carries with it a further special feature which some will regard as a plus and others a minor drawback. In producing it, Decca went back to the raw compositional materials, and the actual scores performed here are some distance from the more familiar versions that have become established in the repertory. On the one hand this is arguably more authentic; on the other, some of the earlier instrumental lines sound materially harder to play, and with this (and perhaps with the unfamiliarity of the players to the slightly more skeletal feel of the revised textures) comes an outcome that doesn't always pack the punch of some of the performances I have heard. Boulez for example recorded a mind-blowing disc of Ameriques, Arcana and Ionisation with the NYPO about 20 years ago, which still amazes me - if you can find that you should be sorely tempted, because some of the other works here, interesting though they are, are certainly less important.
Chailly clearly adores this music and he extracts wonderful precision from both the Concertgebouw (disc 1) and the very talented Asko ensemble (disc 2). This is vibrant music, complete with its Neanderthalic grunts, its wailing sirens and its exuberant percussion lines. I was converted long ago - if you don't know what to expect, just take one piece at a time; if you do, I doubt you'll be disappointed.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable, but not too much my cup of tea, 30 May 2006

By	Patrick J. Lavelle (Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

These CDs contain excellently recorded and performed works...but...they're not too much my cup of tea. But even then, there's a lot in them and I find myself slipping on these CDs every now and again to great pleasure. At the very least, you need not feel compelled to buy another Varese CD again : )

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