Complete Orchestral Works 1 : Lyndon-Gee / Arnhem Philharmonic

IGOR MARKEVITCH (1912-1983)
Complete Orchestral Works 1

This first volume of the Naxos Igor Markevitch Complete Orchestral Works Edition, to be followed by the seven volumes previously released on Marco Polo, brings together two relatively early compositions of astonishing technical and asthetic assurance. The Partita is in effect already his second Piano Concerto, written when the composer was twenty. The granitic oratorio Paradise Lost, whose premiere the composer himself conducted at the BBC in London barely three years later, is among the most important of the composer’s works, bearing comparison with Stravinsky’s contemporaneous OEdipus Rex and Persephone, yet of striking individuality of vision. ( NAXOS )

Partita (1931)
I. Ouverture: Allegro risoluto
II. Choral: Andante molto e sostenuto
III. Rondo: Allegro vivace ma non troppo

Le Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost) (1933-34)
Part I
Part II

Martijn van den Hoek, piano
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
Jon Garrison, tenor
Netherlands Concert Choir (Rob Vermeulen, Chorus-master)
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Lyndon-Gee, conductor