Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete) (Bird Catalogue)

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Carl-Axel Dominique (piano)

BIS - BISCD594/6

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Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Hakon Austbo (piano)

Naxos - 8553532-34

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Messiaen - The Piano Works

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Peter Hill (piano)

(CD - 7 discs)

$41.99

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The Messiaen Edition - Volume 2

Piano & Organ Music

Oiseaux exotiques

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano)

Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano)

Robert Sherlaw Johnson (piano)

L'Ascension (organ version)

John Ogdon (piano)

O sacrum convivium

Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge

La Nativité du Seigneur

Simon Preston (organ)

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Diptyque

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Messe de la Pentecote

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Verset pour la fęte de la Dédicace

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Le Banquet Céleste

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Les Corps Glorieux

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Decca - 4780353

(CD - 7 discs)

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Messiaen - Les Premiers Enregistrements 1956-1963

Oiseaux exotiques

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Sept Haďkaď

Turangalila Symphony

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.

“Of all the various releases marking Messiaen's centenary, this is one of the most valuable. The central four discs, featuring Yvonne Loriod's first recordings of the two cast cycles Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus and Catalogue d'oiseaux will have devotees going faint with excitement. Loriod and Messiaen's 1962 version of Visions de l'amen... utterly exuberant... The stunning performance of Oiseaux exotiques, the premiere itself, is little short of miraculous...” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 *****

“For those wanting to look deeper into Messiaen's evolution and history, the Accord set of early recordings featuring Messiaen, Loriod and contemporary acolytes is essential. Loriod's 1956 account of the Vingt regards has a thrilling atmosphere of discovery... Boulez's account of the insanely exactly Sept Haďkaď and a joyous performance of Oiseaux exotiques from Rudolf Albert, recorded at Domaine Musical events, enjoy a marvellous sense of time and place. Messiaen's own recording of the Quartet for the End of Time, featuring cellist Etienne Pasquier (with whom he was interred in Stalag VIII-A)... has a rooted emotional authenticity that never tries too heard to make its point.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2009

Accord - 4801045

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Messiaen - The Complete Solo Piano Works

Pičce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Fantaisie burlesque

Rondeau

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Prélude pour piano

Roger Muraro (piano)

Accord - 4619072

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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)

Peter Hill (piano)

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Peter Hill (piano)

Peter Hill (piano)

Peter Hill (piano)

Pičce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Peter Hill (piano)

Peter Hill (piano)

Fantaisie burlesque

Peter Hill (piano)

Rondeau

Peter Hill (piano)

Peter Hill (piano)

Počmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete)

Peter Hill (piano) & Benjamin Frith (piano)

Trois Mélodies

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

Harawi (Chants d'amour et de Mort)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Hĺkon Austbř (piano)

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

“No reservations…about Peter Hill's masterly set of the piano music, longheld in esteem by Messiaen-lovers,. Technical control, characterisation, colour, 'clarté': it's all here. Few if any pianists play the first and last movements of Vingt regards so slowly. Few approached his sense of a majestic mystery.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 *****

Brilliant Classics - 8949

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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.

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

La Nativité du Seigneur

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Le Banquet Céleste

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Počmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete)

Maria Orŕn (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Maria Orŕn (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

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

Cinq rechants

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

Harawi (Chants d'amour et de Mort)

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Rachel Yakar (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Turangalila Symphony

Revised Messiaen Edition

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique Kim (ondes Martenot)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kent Nagano

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Yvonne Loriod (piano)