Messiaen: Chants de Terre et de Ciel (Songs of earth and heaven)

Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano

La Mort Du Nombre

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor) & Laura Andriani (violin)

ATMA celebrates the centenary of French composer Olivier Messiaen, one of the most important composers of the mid to late-20th century. These wonderful pieces are performed by a superb line up of artists led by Suzie LeBlanc, best-known for her performances of Baroque music and ATMA’s most prolific recording artist. Her famous purity of tone and impeccable musicianship make her a superb interpreter of Messiaen’s austerely beautiful work.

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Voices of our Time - Dawn Upshaw

A Contemporary Songs Selection

Bolcom:	Amor
Crawford Seeger:	Five Songs
Crumb:	The Sleeper
Golijov:	Lúa descolorida
Harbison:	Mirabai Songs
Ives, C:	Memories The Circus Band
Messiaen:	Počmes pour Mi: IX, Pričre exaucée Chants de Terre et de Ciel
Saariaho:	Lonh
Schwendinger:	In Just-spring

Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Gilbert Kalish (piano)

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Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Jane Manning, soprano, David Miller and David Mason, pianos

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Messiaen: Complete Songs for Soprano & Piano

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano), Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

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The Messiaen Edition - Volume 1

Song Cycles & Orchestral/Chamber Works

L'Ascension (Quatre meditations pour l'orchestre)

Turangalila Symphony

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) & Takashi Harada (ondes martenot)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski

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John Alldis Choir

Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ

Yvonne Loriod (piano) & Janos Starker (cello)

Westminster Symphonic Choir & National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C., Antal Dorati

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

1936, orch.1937

Felicity Palmer (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Olli Mustonen (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello) & Michael Collins (clarinet)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano) & Noelle Barker (soprano)

Noelle Barker (soprano)

Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano) & Noelle Barker (soprano)

Rondeau

Paul Crossley (piano)

John Ogdon (piano) & Brenda Lucas (piano)

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Olivier Messiaen - 1908–1992 (100th Anniversary Box Set)

Les Offrandes oubliées (1930)

Turangalila Symphony

Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenot) & Michel Béroff (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Orchestre de Paris & Ensemble de Percussion de l’Orchestre de Paris, Serge Baudo

Chronochromie for large orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Éclairs sur l'au-delŕ…

Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Yvonne Loriod (piano), Christoph Poppen (violin), Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello) & Wolfgang Meyer (clarinet)

Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano

Christoph Poppen (violin) & Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Emmanuel Pahud (flute)

Preludes (8)

Michel Béroff (piano)

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Michel Béroff (piano)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Alexandre Rabinovitch & Martha Argerich (pianos)

Quatre Études de rythme

Michel Béroff (piano)

Cantéyodjayâ

John Ogdon (piano)

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

Le Banquet Céleste

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

Diptyque

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

L'Ascension (organ version)

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

La Nativité du Seigneur

Olivier Messiaen (organ) & Naji Hakim (organ)

Priere apres la Communion

Naji Hakim (organ)

Les Corps Glorieux

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

Messe de la Pentecote

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

Livre d'Orgue

Olivier Messiaen (organ)

La Mort Du Nombre

Ann Murray (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Michčle Command (soprano) & Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)

Michčle Command (soprano) & Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Michčle Command (soprano) & Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)

3 Petites liturgies de la Presence Divine

Michčle Command (soprano) & Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)

Rolf Hind (piano) & Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot)

London Sinfonietta & London Sinfonietta Chorus, Terry Edwards

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Rolf Hind (piano) & Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot)

London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Chorus & London Sinfonietta Voices, Terry Edwards

Olivier Messiaen was born on 10th December 1908 in Avignon. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1919 to 1930 where his teachers included Paul Dukas and the great organist and improviser Marcel Dupré. He developed a very distinctive style in the music and with his deep Catholic faith and love of birds he created a highly original palette in sound which he employed in works for orchestra, small combination of or merely solo instruments or choir. EMI is celebrating his centenary with a collection of 14CDs. Messiaen himself appears as the organist in four CDs of his solo organ music, recorded in from the earliest work up to and including to his then latest work Livre d’Orgue. These four CDs have been newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios.

His wife, Yvonne Loriod, plays the piano in the CD of the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps and his sister-in-law, Jeanne Loriod, plays the ondes-martenot in the Turangalila Symphony with Michel Beroff and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn. Although most works have been issued on CD before some are rare – e.g. 2 CDs of Melodies – and two are making their first appearance in this medium: Quatre etudes de rythme and Cantéyodjâya played by Beroff and Ogdon respectively. This is a fine set to introduce yourself to one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.

EMI - 2174662

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Messiaen Edition Volume 1

Piano Works, Organ Works & Songs

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Le Banquet Céleste

Willem Tanke (organ)

Diptyque

Willem Tanke (organ)

Willem Tanke (organ)

L'Ascension (organ version)

Willem Tanke (organ)

La Nativité du Seigneur

Willem Tanke (organ)

Les Corps Glorieux

Willem Tanke (organ)

Livre d'Orgue

Willem Tanke (organ)

Messe de la Pentecote

Willem Tanke (organ)

Méditations sur le mystčre de la Sainte Trinité

Willem Tanke (organ)

Livre du Saint-Sacrement

Willem Tanke (organ)

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Peter Hill (piano)

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Peter Hill (piano)

Preludes (8)

Peter Hill (piano)

Quatre Études de rythme

Peter Hill (piano)

Cantéyodjayâ

Peter Hill (piano)

Pičce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Peter Hill (piano)

Fantaisie burlesque

Peter Hill (piano)

Rondeau

Peter Hill (piano)

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Peter Hill (piano)

Peter Hill (piano) & Benjamin Frith (piano)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

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Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

La Fauvette des jardins

Peter Hill (piano)

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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Messiaen Edition

An 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Preludes (8)

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Quatre Études de rythme

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

La Nativité du Seigneur

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Le Banquet Céleste

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Maria Orŕn (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Maria Orŕn (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Huguette Fernandez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)

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Solistes des chśurs de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Les Offrandes oubliées (1930)

Katia and Maričlle Labčque, pianos

Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Hymne au Saint-Sacrement

Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Yvonne Loriod (piano)