Aspen Music Festival: Aspen Festival Orchestra: French Romantics Debussy and Chausson

"Music inspired by geologic time and the sea bookend Chausson’s lush and sensuous Poème featuring Dorothy DeLay Prize Winner Hayoung Choi. 'An Atlas of Deep Time' by John Luther Adams was inspired by his “desire, amid the turbulence of human affairs, to hear the older, deeper resonances of the earth… Like the geologic layers of rocks beneath our feet, the densities and textures, the instrumental and harmonic colors are always changing, yet somehow the substance always seems to be the same… The earth is 4 billion 570 million years old. 'An Atlas of Deep Time' lasts roughly 46 minutes, which equates to about 100 million years per minute. At that tempo, the entire history of the human family is represented in the dying reverberations of the last 25 milliseconds of this music."

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: An Atlas of Deep Time
CHAUSSON: Poème, op. 25
DEBUSSY: La mer