Pierre Henry: La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven Benoit Rameau, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Marzena Diakun, Bruno Mantovani & Pascal Rophé

• Pierre Henry (1927 - 2017): La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven:
• 1La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: I. Allegro con brio05:43
• 2La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: II. Scherzo08:44
• 3La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: III. Allegro molto04:48
• 4La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: IV Andante12:25
• 5La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: V. Rondo09:04
• 6La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: VI. Presto08:09
• 7La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: VII. Comme une fantaisie11:13
• 8La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven: VIII. Finale13:59
• Total Runtime01:14:05

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There are three electroacoustic versions (1979, 1988, 1998), but it is the unpublished symphonic version that is presented here.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

Benoit Rameau, tenor
Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Choeur de Radio France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Pascal Rophe, direction
Bruno Mantovani, direction
Marzena Diakun, direction

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