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Composer: Vivier, Claude

Conductor: Leeuw, Reinbert de

Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

Narrator: Leysen, Johan

Soloist: Akker, Marion van den

Soloist: Daymond, Karl

Soloist: Kamp, Harry van der

Soloist: Lloyd Morgan, Richard

Soloist: Makuuchi, Tomoko

Soloist: McFadden, Claron

Soloist: Poulson, Lani

Set Designer: Kalman, Jean

Costume Designer: Figus, Angelo

Lighting Designer: Kalman, Jean

Stage Director: Audi, Pierre

Television Director: Hulscher, Hans

Marco Polo

Composer: Vivier, Claude

Librettist/Text Author: Holderlin, Friedrich

Librettist/Text Author: Vivier, Claude

Librettist/Text Author: Chamberland, Paul

Librettist/Text Author: King, Jr., Martin Luther

Conductor: Leeuw, Reinbert de

Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble

Narrator: Leysen, Johan

Soloist: Couroux, Marc

Soloist: Halteren, John van

Soloist: Harries, Kathryn

Soloist: Hens, Charles

Soloist: Kamp, Harry van der

Soloist: Lloyd Morgan, Richard

Soloist: Makuuchi, Tomoko

Soloist: McFadden, Claron

Soloist: Mierau, Terence

Soloist: Narucki, Susan

Soloist: Ottaway, James

Soloist: Poulson, Lani

Soloist: Rasker, Helena

Soloist: Scholte, Jose

Costume Designer: Figus, Angelo

Stage Director: Audi, Pierre

Television Director: Hulscher, Hans

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Date of Production: 2004

Venue: Gasholder Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam

Playing Time: 04:27:32

Catalogue Number: OA0943D

UPC: 809478009436

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Many consider Claude Vivier the greatest composer Canada has yet produced. Gyorgy Ligeti once called him 'the finest French composer of his generation'. A pupil under Gilles Tremblay and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he soon created his own dazzling vocal and orchestral language, profoundly marked by his travels to the Far East. The interweaving of his personal and professional life, of the real and the imaginary, reveals a compelling global awareness, deep human compassion and a universal quest for ultimate enlightenment. Vivier himself pursued this journey of discovery, until his tragic murder in Paris at the age of thirty-four.

The two parts of Reves d'un Marco Polo are like shadow and light, forming a dreamlike ritualistic experience and encompassing stage productions of his finest compositions. Pierre Audi's superb and moving staging is complemented by refined, passionate musical direction from Reinbert de Leeuw, leading the soloists, the Asko Ensemble and the Schonberg Ensemble to great heights.

Bonus features:

- Claude Vivier - a spellbinding and insightful 60-minute documentary by Cherry Duyns, from his acclaimed contemporary composer portrait series, on the life and work of Claude Vivier, including rare footage, interviews with conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and people close to Vivier and his music

- Introductions to the work by Pierre Audi and Reinbert de Leeuw