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 | The Organ Works of Oliver Messiaen Volume 2Organ of Arhus Cathedral, Denmark
Messiaen: | Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité |
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 | Messiaen - Organ Works Volume 2
Michael Bonaventure (the Rieger organ of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh) “Michael Bonaventure's does get Messiaen's music to lift off the page, even in the most rigorous pages of the Livre d'orgue. The organ of St Giles, Edinburgh has the power and range of colour needed, with the fierce chords at the opening of 'Les mains de l'abîme' fizzing with tension.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “Playing that fully embraces the Messiaen spirit in demanding works.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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 | Messiaen - The Complete Organ Music, Volume 5
Messiaen: | Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité |
Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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played on organ at Beauvais Cathedral | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 weeks. |
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 | Messiaen: Complete Organ Works Vol. 4
Messiaen: | Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité |
langage complexe qui s’exprime clairement par les soins de cet organiste à l’attitude ‘lisible’. (Répertoire) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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 | Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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 | Messiaen - The Organ Works
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 | Messiaen - Organ Works (Complete)
2002 is the tenth anniversary of Messiaen's death. This 6 CD box set of the complete works was recorded on the organ of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris by Olivier Latry. Latry has been the titular organist of the cathedral of Notre Dame since 1985.
Messiaen himself could think of no better interpreter of his organ music than Olivier Latry. Yvonne Messiaen, the composer's widow, quotes what her husband said about Oliver Latry: "Olivier Messiaen talked about Olivier Latry as "the new Marcel Dupré". Interpreter, improviser, teacher; his qualities are manifold. His virtuosity, the immensity of his repertoire, his knowledge of all styles. It is difficult to choose what to admire most! Olivier Latry is a master with hands of light, who can restore all the love, the joy and the colours Olivier Messiaen lay into his music." Since 1985 (when he was only 23), Mr. Latry has been one of the three titulaires at France's grandest cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris, whose organ is at heart another Cavaillé-Coll instrument. What makes his new boxed set special is the sound of that instrument. At Messiaen's many ecstatic climaxes or eerie epiphanies, the musical colors emanating from this organ truly seem to be breathing the air of other planets. It's a more amazing sound even than that of Messiaen's own instrument. Yet as another organ built at almost exactly the same time and rooted in Cavaille-Coll, it retains an authenticity that other organs inevitably lack. The New York Times, December 2003 | | DG - 4714802 (CD - 6 discs) Normally: $89.99 Special: $58.49 |
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 | Messiaen: Organ Works (Complete)
Willem Tanke (Organ, St. Bavo Basilica, Haarlem) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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 | Messiaen Edition Volume 1Piano Works, Organ Works & Songs
The long life and passionate, exotic music of Olivier Messiaen are big news in this, the centenary year of his birth. Festivals worldwide are celebrating one of the last century’s greatest composers and his heady blend of a musical language that moves from the rich romanticism of the French organ tradition to the diamond precision of a modernism which hugely influenced the leaders of the postwar avant-garde such as Boulez and Stockhausen. His love of God and nature is everywhere evident in the vast cycles of works such as La Nativité du Seigneur and Vingt Régards sur l’Enfant Jésus, but so is a delight in instrumental virtuosity: he was himself a superb organist and pianist. All of these recordings were critically acclaimed when they first appeared; they have been reissued with extensive notes and full texts for the songs. ‘Throughout‚ Hill limns Messiaen’s heady‚ quasi pantheistic amalgam of rapture and stillness‚ evocation and exultation with illuminating exuberance…Hill is supported by a recording of satisfyingly huge range…In Benjamin Frith, Hill has a duo partner as responsive to Messiaen’s demands for subtlety of colour and delicacy of texture as he is himself.’ Gramophone | 
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