ROBERT ORLEDGE
ROBERT
ORLEDGE
F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S
"A brilliant musicologist...An amazing guy. A fantastic orchestrator and a really, really good composer... As there was so little material to go on, I wish I could say it was a scam. But I absolutely adore it. A jolly, jolly piece...Debussy couldn't get a better outing."
Jeremy Sams reviewing the PAN CLASSICS CD 10342 of 'Le Diable dans le Beffroi'.
(Summer Record Review. BBC 3, 20 August 2016​)
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"In the Cardiff strand of the Paris City of Light Festival , this concert is the sure-fire highlight of the cultural year so far...Debussy's No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence was the big event. With a gamelan orchestra, chorus and narrator, this is one lavish ballet...filled with barbarism, a perfumed eroticism and even a joyous pride. By completing this work, Robert Orledge has done the music world a big favour.
(The Sprout, 25 April 2015)
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‘Just the opening few moments of the Debussy Usher are enough to conjure a very different and much more involving world….The effect is truly seamless; as conducted by Lawrence Foster, the 45-minute score sounds like late Debussy - there are echoes of the orchestral Images, especially ‘Gigues’, and even of ‘Jeux’ - and the prevailing mood of a doom-laden house is recognisably similar to that of ‘Pelleas et Melisande’. ‘ Andrew Clements (The Guardian, 16 June 2014)
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‘Though virtually half the music is Orledge, you wouldn’t know it, so relentlessly authentic and beautifully atmospheric is the effect. ‘
(Paul Driver: The Sunday Times, 22 June 2014)
"It is a sweat-producing listening experience - it throws you!…And in the end, the audience is beside itself cheering and applauding."
(Tim Schleiber: Die Stuttgarter Zeitung, 9 Aug 2006)
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The Unknown Debussy
Nicolas Horvath, Piano
Naxos Grand Piano Series GP822
Contains World Premiere recordings of A Night in the House of Usher; Fetes Galantes; Incidental music for Le Roi Lear; No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and Un Jour affreux avec Le Diable dans le Beffroi.
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Rodrigue et Chimene in a new orchestration by Robert Orledge is planned for a concert premiere with Orchestra Symphonique Ile-de-France in 2024
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Conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller at the Murten Festival, Switzerland in collaboration with Zurich Opera.
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Also to be recorded and performed in Paris.
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Rhapsodie Mauresque for Alto Sax and Orchestra
Recorded by Asya Fateveya and Saarbrucken Radio Orchestra.
Conducted by Rokas Valuntomis
10 Feb 2022
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Poeme pour Violon et Orchestre (1910-1914), completed and orchestrated by Robert Orledge published by Musik Fabrik, France - 2019
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Orchestral score, parts and piano reduction published by Musik Fabrik, France - 2019
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Serenade pour Violon et Orchestre (circa 1894), completed and orchestrated by Robert Orledge
Full and Chamber Orchestral scores parts and piano reduction published by c - 2019
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Completed Incidental Music for Le Roi Lear - Suite for piano or orchestra (15mins) Orchestral score, parts and piano version published by Musik Fabrik, France - 2020
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Also to be published 2019-2020: No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence, La Saulaie for Baritone and Orchestra, L'histoire de Tristan - Prelude
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Also Piano pieces from the Unknown Debussy CD by Nicolas Horvath GP822
Rhapsodie Mauresque for Alto Sax and Orchestra revised and re-orchestrated from Debussy's 1908 Draft,
with Asya Fateyeva with orchestra conducted by Christoph Mueller
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Piano Reduction and Score available Dec 2020
Musik Fabrik, France - 2020
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Germaine Tailleferre, Fandango (1920)
Orchestrated By Robert Orledge August 2021
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