This page lists all recordings of Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos, by Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (1908-92) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianosThis was one of the first recordings of Messiaen’s cycle of pieces for two
pianos and the late English pianist John Ogdon was an acclaimed interpreter
of Messiaen.
John Ogdon & Brenda Lucas (pianos) Recorded - Decca Studio No.3, West Hampstead, London, 29-31 December 1970 “The Ogdon team play it magnificently, making light of its difficulties of text and ensemble.” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Messiaen & Beethoven - Works for Piano Duo
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Steven Osborne & Martin Roscoe (pianos) ‘Only a pile-up of adjectives, to which should be added coruscating and addictively dithyrambic, could do justice’ (The Sunday Times) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos
Maarten Bon (piano), Reinbert de Leeuw (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | From Mozart To Messiaen
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| |  | Messiaen - The Montaigne Recordings
This 6 CD set is being released to mark the centenary of the birth of the great 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen. The music on these discs was originally recorded between 1988 and 1991 and released on the label “Montaigne”. The selection of works included feature major works that cover the most significant period in Messiaen’s life as a composer. The earliest of these is the “Visions de L’Amen” for two pianos which was written in 1943, whilst the most recent, “Un Vitrail et des Oiseaux” for piano and small orchestra comes from the year 1986.
Throughout his life Messiaen maintained a strong devotion to Catholicism, and many of his works like “Visions de L’Amen”, “ La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur, Jesus Christ”, a large scale piece for choir and orchestra that was written in the late 1960’s, and the 1963 composition for piano and ensemble “Couleurs de la Cité Celeste” are representations of his unwavering faith in Christianity. Messiaen was also an avid birdwatcher and recorded and catalogued their songs which he transcribed and used to marvellous effect in several of his compositions, including the aptly named “Oiseaux Exotique” of 1956, which alongside the later “Un Vitrail et des Oiseaux” is similarly written for piano and chamber ensemble. The “Sept Ha?ka?” was written in 1962 and is subtitled “japanese sketches for piano and small orchestra”. It is the composer’s musical response to the landscape and birds of Japan, as well as the order and ceremony that defines that country’s culture. The final work in this set is the massive “Des Canyons aux Etoiles”, for solo piano, horn, xylorimba, glockenspiel and orchestra. Written in 1974, it is a monumental cycle of meditations on the majesty of God in all his creation, and was inspired by a visit that the composer made to the great canyons of Utah in the U.S.A. Artists featured in the recordings include renowned Messiaen interpreters, Pierre Boulez, Yvonne Loriod, the Schoenberg Ensemble, and Reinbert de Leeuw. | 
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| |  | The Messiaen Edition - Volume 1Song Cycles & Orchestral/Chamber Works
Messiaen: | Turangalila Symphony Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) & Takashi Harada (ondes martenot) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly L'Ascension (Quatre meditations pour l'orchestre) London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski Cinq rechants 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 Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete) 1936, orch.1937 Felicity Palmer (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez Quatuor pour la fin du temps 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) Harawi (Chants d'amour et de Mort) Noelle Barker (soprano) Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete) Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano) & Noelle Barker (soprano) Rondeau Paul Crossley (piano) Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos John Ogdon (piano) & Brenda Lucas (piano) |
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| |  | Messiaen - The Piano Works
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| |  | Messiaen - Les Premiers Enregistrements 1956-1963
Yvonne Loriod (piano) and also features Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez & Maurice Le Roux This set of ‘world premiere recordings’, released in the Century year of Messiaen’s birth, is unquestionably the definitive tribute to the talent of Yvonne Loriod. It was for Messiaen’s former student, who became his second wife in 1961, that he composed his great cycles and important piano works. Messiaen once said “I knew they would be played by Yvonne Loriod, I knew I could dream up very difficult things, things quite extraordinary and very new. They would be played and played well” She gave the first performance in March 1945 of the Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus, and in April 1959 of the complete version of Catalogue d’oiseaux. |
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