Numerical Sound Client, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie

Olicantus (Benjamin)
Cuts and Dissolves, Canzona per Sonare (Rihm)
Études and Elegies (A Quick Blast; Uninterrupted Sorrow; A Quiet Life) (Turnage); Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, Kazushi Ono; Michael Svoboda (trombone)
Recorded by Musica Numeris. Producer: Simon Fox-Gál; Engineers: Nicolas de Beco, Fréderic Briant
Warner Classics

Producers Comments

The material for this CD was recorded at live performances at Bozar, Brussels, Belgium. With an orchestra of this size and full house, the acoustic was effectively completely dry on the recording. The ambience on the final master was created entirely using Classical IR 1543.

Review Comments

“The recorded sound is exceptional: if Kazushi Ono and the Orchèstre Symphonique de la Monnaie, caught live in Brussels, sound as sumptuous as this, why do we suffer so many pinched recordings from elsewhere? With dazzling sound and polished performances, the music takes on added lustre.” Entertainment Times Online

BBC Music Magazine gave this album five stars for both performance and sound: '...excellent performances, stunningly well recorded, a fine addition to [the] composers' discography'. - Calum MacDonald, April 2005

About Kazushi Ono

In 2002 Kazushi Ono was appointed Music Director of La Monnaie, the Royal Opera House of Belgium, succeeding Antonio Pappano. This followed appointments as General Music Director of the the Baden-Württemberg State Theatre in Karlsruhe from 1996 to 2001, Chief Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra from 1990 – 1996 and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra where he was Principal Conductor from 1992 and where he still holds the position of Conductor Laureate and Artistic Advisor.

In addition to his activities at La Monnaie he frequently guest conducts with orchestras such as the NDR Hamburg, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, RAI di Torino, Ensemble Intercontemporain, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein. This season he makes his debut at the Chatelet in Paris with Henze The Bassarids with the Orchestre Philharmonique.

Born in Tokyo, Kazushi began his training as a conductor at the State High School for Fine Arts and Music. He also studied with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival and with Wolfgang Sawallisch and Giuseppe Patane at the Bavarian State Opera, going on to win First Prize in the Arturo Toscanini Competition in 1987. Warner Classics Biography of Kazushi Ono

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