Régis Campo : LUMEN II for orchestra

Régis CAMPO: LUMEN II for orchestra (2006-2013)
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Radio Kamer Filharmonie conducted by James MacMillan
21 June 2013 - Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
Live recording
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
At the end of the season the curtain falls for the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, one of the top orchestras in Dutch orchestral music. The dissolution is widely deplored, and the unanimous acclaim and endorsements seem to have given the orchestra a real lift: the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic is at the peak of its playing power. On the longest day of the year, 21 June 2013, the orchestra will play one of their last concerts ever.
Years of close and successful collaboration between the orchestra and the Holland Festival -- only last year they gave a sold-out concert playing works by Pärt and Schnittke and world premiering a new work by Toivo Tulev -- is crowned with a programme which is emphatically not only a swan song, but, featuring two new compositional commissions, also leaves something behind for the future. The dark tidings get a response in the form of a concert on the theme of light.
Régis Campo (1968) once stated in an interview that the sumptuous light in the city of Nice, where he lives, has a positive influence on his work and his mental state: his works often sound like optimistic overtures. Lumen II (2006), the sequel to Lumen (2001) for large orchestra, is a point in case, featuring a radiant orchestration in which high tones predominate.
   • Régis CAMPO : LUMEN for orchestra (2001)  
Régis Campo (1968) is one of the most prominent French composers of his generation. He studied composition with Georges Boeuf at the conservatory of his home town Marseille and philosophy at university in Aix-en-Provence. He continued his studies with Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris, where he won first prize in composition in 1995. In 1996 he won the Gaudeamus International Prize for Composition for Commedia and three prizes at the Henri Dutilleux Concours. In 1999 he received the Hervé Dugardin Prize and was awarded the Pierre Cardin Prize by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2005, Campo was granted the Sacem Prize for young composers and the Georges Bizet Prize. From 1999 until 2001 he was composer in residence at the Villa Medici of the French Academy in Rome. Campo's oeuvre consists of works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo instruments. The orchestral work Lumen was premiered in 2001 by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano. Lumen II for orchestra was first performed in 2006 at the Festival Besançon by the chamber orchestra Pelléas under Benjamin Levy. Campo's Second Symphony 'Moz'art' premiered in 2005 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris led by John Nelson. In 2008, Campo composed an orchestration of Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements for theMontréal Symphony Orchestra under Nagano. He has also worked with the English soprano Felicity Lott, conductor Marc Minkowski and the Musiciens du Louvre. For his CD Pop-art he won a Coup de cœur-Charles Cros as well as the Grand Prix Lycéen in 2006.
Of his large body of work, we should also mention Commedia for 19 musicians (1995), Concerto for violin (1997), Livre de Sonates (1997-1999) pour orgue, Concerto for piano and orchestra (1998-1999), Livre de Fantaisies for cello (1999), Lumen (2001) for orchestra, Pop-Art for 6 musicians (2002), Cris de Marseille (2005), String quartet N°3 "Ombra Felice" (2007), Le Bestiaire for soprano and orchestra (2007-2008), Les Quatre Jumelles, opera buffa (2009), Livre des Caractères for organ (2010), String quartet N°4 "Energy/Fly" (2010), Color! for orchestra (2011), String Quartet #5 'Fata Morgana' (2012).