Credits:

Barbara Hannigan, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Description:

[Haydn and the 20th century...Hannigan presents the sound of "The Passion" across the centuries! In 2019, the Alpha label released a much-discussed, astonishing new release, "fleeting and eternal," by Patrizia Kopatchinskaya, looking at the horrors of war (Alpha545/NYCX-10086, "Record Art" Readers' Choice 2019 #8 ). As a response to this achievement, Barbara Hannigan, who also began releasing sound recordings on the Alpha label, also presents a new recording that looks ahead to hard times. Conducting the elite Ludwig Orchestra of the Netherlands, she has chosen to record three works that she has been pursuing on the concert scene to great acclaim: the long-deceased 20th century avant-garde (both Grisey and Noh), the Japanese modern-contemporary (both Grisey and Noh, and Noh and Grisey), and the Japanese modern-contemporary (Noh and Grisey). Both Grisey and Nohno are probably familiar names to Japanese fans of modern and contemporary orchestral music), and a symphony from Haydn's middle period! The theme of this album is "The Passion", and the album has a seemingly unexpected twist: between the two 20th century avant-garde works, Haydn's Symphony No. 49, which is said to be based on the music of the Passion Passion Passage, is inserted. The Haydn symphony is also a unique work that begins with a long slow movement in a minor key, and this is a perfect program to show that Hannigan is a top-notch conductor as well.Before and after the performance that carefully reveals the beauty of Haydn's works, there is a solo piece by NONO, who experienced the movements of spectral music and electronic music while developing his own style, and a series of works by GRISSEY, which HANNIGAN sang with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rattle. The flow is nothing short of exquisite. The composition of Grisey's works, which reveal the gradual loss of humanity by quoting various poems from ancient to modern times, is a piece that should only be heard in this configuration. As an album, it is a very significant aural experience. Naxos Japan