Messiaen: Le Merle noir for flute and piano

This page lists all recordings of Le Merle noir for flute and piano, 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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20th Century Flute

20th Century Flute


Boulez:

Sonatine for flute and piano

Dutilleux:

Sonatine for flute and piano

Jolivet:

Cinq Incantations pour flûte seule

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Varèse:

Densité 21.5


Philippe Bernold (flute) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

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Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord - HMA1951710

(CD)

Normally: $7.49

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Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony, etc.

Messiaen:

Turangalîla Symphony

Peter Donohoe (piano), Tristan Murail (ondes martenot)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Erich Gruenberg (violin), Gervase de Payer (clarinet), William Pleeth (cello), Michel Béroff (piano)

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Karlheinz Zoller (flute), Aloys Kontarsky (piano)


EMI Gemini - 5865252

(CD - 2 discs)

$11.49

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Messiaen - Inédits

Messiaen - Inédits


Messiaen:

La Mort Du Nombre

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano), Francoise Pollet (soprano), Herve Lamy (tenor) & Agnes Sulem Bialobroda (violin)

Offrande au Saint Sacrement

Naji Hakim (organ)

Prélude pour piano

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano)

Chant Dans Le Style Mozart

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano) & Guy Deplus (clarinet)

Prélude pour orgue

Naji Hakim (organ)

Pièce pour Piano et Quatour a Cordes

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano)

Rosamonde Quartet

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano) & Christian Larde (flute)

Monodie

Naji Hakim (organ)

Inedits

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Jeanne Loriod & Onde Martenot

Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen (piano)

Chant Des Deportes

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis


“This CD features the first release of performances of short works by Messiaen, all of them rarities, except for Le merle noir. Messiaen wrote La morte du nombre for soprano, tenor, violin, and piano in 1929 while he was a student at the Paris Conservatory. It's a serene, gorgeous, sensuous piece that deserves to be more widely known. Offrande au Saint Sacrament, for organ, is undated, but probably written soon after La morte du nombre in a similar mood of quiet radiance. It's typical of the style of the composer's organ works of the early '30s -- harmonically and melodically rich, emotionally warm, and rhythmically irregular. Quatre Inédits for Ondes Martenot and piano sound like absolutely nothing else in the world…it's revelatory to hear it highlighted as it is here - the sounds of which it's capable and which the composer adroitly exploits are stunning. The album closes with Chant des Déportés, for chorus and orchestra, written in celebration of the liberation of prisoners from concentration camps in 1945. It's distinctly Messiaen, but at the same time rousingly patriotic - the choral parts are unison and relatively simple, probably intended for community choruses rather than professionals - and the effect is genuinely gripping. Any fan of the composer will want to hear these obscure but attractive pieces.”

Stephen Eddins, All Music Guide

Warner Classics - 1136996432

(CD)

$17.49

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Messiaen - Chamber Works

Messiaen - Chamber Works


Messiaen:

Fantaisie

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Pièce pour Piano et Quatour a Cordes

Morceau de lecture à vue

world première recording


James Clark (violin), Philippe Honoré (violin), Rachel Roberts (viola), David Cohen (cello), Kenneth Smith (flute) & Barnaby Robson (clarinet)

"An excellent pianist and an excellent exponent. … Accuracy, rhythm, sonority, technique, emotion … everything is played as Messiaen wished it." Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen

British pianist Matthew Schellhorn is joined by the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra in this recording of Olivier Messiaen's chamber works, including the eight-movement masterpiece Quatuor pour la fin du Temps and the world première of Morceau de lecture à vue. Matthew will be performing at St Georges, Bristol in July with The Soloists of the Philharmonia.

Signum - SIGCD126

(CD)

$16.99

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Olivier Messiaen - Chamber Works

Olivier Messiaen - Chamber Works


Messiaen:

Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Quatour pour la fin du Temps, written and premiered in a POW camp, is one of the most remarkable works to have come out of World War II. The Ensemble powerfully conveys its apocalyptic inspiration and message of faith.

Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano

The Theme and Variations was Messiaen's first piece of instrumental chamber music and was considered by the composer to be one of his best.

Pièce pour Piano et Quatour a Cordes

Fantaisie

Le Merle noir for flute and piano


Hebrides Ensemble, William Conway

Includes the first recording of Fantaisie, a work for violin and piano, thought to be lost until it was re-discovered by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and then published in 2007.

“The novelty on this disc of five items, including the group’s stirring account of Quatuor pour la fin du temps, is the Fantasie for violin and piano, which Messiaen wrote in 1933 to play with his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos, and which was thought lost until it turned up among the composer’s papers last year. An eight-minute movement, beginning with a defiant, distinctive melody for the piano in octaves, it is in Messiaen’s liveliest, ripest, if early, style. His three-minute Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes is a marvellously incisive, birdsong-inflected tribute to the publisher Alfred Schlee. The flute-and-piano bird piece Le Merle noir is bristlingly despatched.” Sunday Times, 8th June 2008 ***

“In celebration of Messiaen's centenary, the Hebrides Ensemble gives a quite dark performance of the Quartet for the End of Time. William Conway's cello burns with weighty intensity. In fact, a little spring and lightness would not have gone amiss, especially in the Danse de la Fureur, where the syncopated rhythm lacks bounce. Also included is Le Merle Noir, the black thrush, the first birdsong that Messiaen turned into music. The solo flute burrs authentically.” The Times, 31st May 2008 ****

“All [the] pieces get vivid, beautifully judged performances from the Hebrides Ensemble, and the account of the much more frequently recorded Quartet stands up well to the competition, too.” The Guardian, 23rd May 2008 ****

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Linn - CKD314

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French Flute Music

French Flute Music


Boulez:

Sonatine for flute and piano

Dutilleux:

Sonatine for flute and piano

Jolivet:

Chant de Linos

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Poulenc:

Flute Sonata, Op. 164

Sancan:

Sonatine for flute and piano


Patrick Gallois (flute) & Lydia Wong (piano)

“Patrick Gallois … is a player of agility and sensitivity, an intelligent artist who can make his metal flute speak with all the subtlety of varied articulation and tone colour that some of us had come to assume was only possible on the wooden baroque instrument.” The Gramophone

Naxos - 8557328

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$6.99

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French Music for Flute

French Music for Flute


Chaminade:

Concertino for flute & piano Op. 107

Debussy:

Syrinx for solo flute

Enescu:

Cantabile and Presto

Gaubert:

Nocturne & Allegro Scherzando

Honegger:

Danse de la chèvre

Hüe:

Fantaisie

Ibert:

Pièce pour flûte seule

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Roussel:

Joueurs de Flûte, Op. 27


Peter Lukas Graf (flute), Michio Kobayashi (piano)

Claves - 500704

(CD)

$18.49

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Oiseaux tendres

Oiseaux tendres


Izarra:

Concerto for flute and strings - Pitangus Sulphuratus

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Popp:

Nightingale Serenade, Op. 447 for flute and piano

Rivier:

Oiseaux tendres for solo flute

Saariaho:

Laconisme de l'aile for solo flute

Vivaldi:

Flute Concerto, Op. 10 No. 3 in D major, RV 428 'Il gardellino'


Manuela Wiesler (flute), Ulf Söderberg (harpsichord), Mats Widlund (piano)

Musica Vitae, Péter Csaba

BIS - BISCD689

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Romantic and Picturesque

Romantic and Picturesque

Music for Flute with Piano or Organ


Badings:

Dialogues for flute and organ

Fauré:

Fantaisie for flute & orchestra (or flute & piano), Op. 79

Frumerie:

Aria, Op. 77b for flute and organ

Hartmann, J P E:

Preludium in G minor

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Olsson:

Romance, Op. 24 for flute (violin) and organ

Poulenc:

Flute Sonata, Op. 164

Rhené-Baton:

Passacaille, Op. 35 for flute and piano

Roussel:

Joueurs de Flûte, Op. 27


Gunilla von Bahr (flute), Dag Achatz (piano), Hans Fagius (organ)

BIS - BISCD160

(CD)

$16.99

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20th Century Works for Flute

20th Century Works for Flute


Debussy:

Syrinx for solo flute

Dusapin:

I. Pexi

Dutilleux:

Sonatine for flute and piano

Hersant:

5 miniatures

Jolivet:

Chant de Linos

Messiaen:

Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Tanguy:

Wadi

Varèse:

Densité 21.5


Juliette Hurel (flute), Helene Couvert (piano)

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Naive - V4925

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Special: $13.59

Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days.

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