Klangforum Wien Orchestra / Walder / Piirto / Schiske / Lipowski / Metzmacher

»From the canyons to the stars ... This means rising from the depths of the canyons up to the stars – and even higher up to the resurrected of paradise – to praise God and the fullness of his creations: the beauties of the earth (its rocks, its birdsongs), the beauties of the visible sky, the beauties of the spiritual sky.« With these words, so characteristic of him, Olivier Messiaen describes what he wanted to express with »Des Canyons aux étoiles ...«. A journey through Utah's national parks with their extraordinary rock formations was the inspiration for what is probably his most colourful and certainly his longest orchestral work, which Messiaen wrote for the bicentenary of the US Declaration of Independence. Under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher, the expanded Klangforum Wien presents this gigantic masterpiece.