This page lists all recordings of Les Corps Glorieux, by Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (1908-92) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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| |  | Messiaen: Les corps glorieux
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| |  | Messiaen - Complete Organ Works Volume 1
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (The Organ of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle) “Timothy Byram-Wigfield's programme highlights Messiaen's earlier works, the main emphasis falling on the seven-movement sequence from 1939, Les corps glorieux. It's clear from the outset that this will be a strongly delineated reading, with well managed contrasts of registration given added clarity by the superb quality of the recording.
It's a very physical sound but the vibrating beats of sustained notes are never oppressive, and the reading has a sense of direction and purpose which even manages to make a compelling experience out of the 15-minute central movement, 'Combat de la Mort et de la Vie'.
The two shorter pieces are well contrasted, with Le banquet céleste given a satisfying build-up, and Apparition de l'église éternelle magnificently forthright and implacable. This is a highly successful disc and augurs well for Byram- Wigfield's projected survey of Messiaen's early organ music.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “One…welcomes the chance to hear an organist from the younger generation, playing an English instrument (Harrison and Harrison) and giving full weight to the music’s uncompromising intensity. It’s clear from the outset that this will be a strongly delineated reading, with well managed contrasts of registration given added clarity by the superb quality of the recording…This is a highly successful disc.” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Sounds Messianic
Jamie Hitel (organ of St Paul's Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio, USA) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Messiaen - The Complete Organ Music, Volume 4
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| |  | Messiaen: Complete Organ Works Vol. 3
Rudolf Innig’s career has been a success in every sense of the word. The young organist was awarded numerous international prizes and established a solid reputation in countless concert tours throughout almost of Europe and in North America, Japan, and Korea. His Messiaen, Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn recordings have received rave reviews. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Messiaen Organ Works
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| |  | Messiaen - Complete Organ Works
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." “the cathedral resounds with the meeting between the music, the instrument, and what [Latry] calls 'its jewel-case of stone'....it's actually possible simply to revel in the extraordinary sounds [Messiaen] makes, his intimate understanding of the instrument he wrote for and the colours and textures he could draw from it.” Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 “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.” New York Times, December 2003 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Messiaen Edition - Volume 2Piano & Organ Music
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| |  | Messiaen - Complete Organ Works
Hans-Ola Ericsson (playing the Grönlund Organ of Luleå Cathedral, Sweden and the 2006 Gerald Woehl Organ of the Katharinenkirche, Oppenheim, Germany) Incorporating the fruits of the composer’s untiring research into the various aspects of tonality, bird-song, ancient Indian and Greek rhythms, and his life-long preoccupation with the philosophy and liturgy of the Catholic Church, the organ music by Olivier Messiaen forms a pillar in the music of the 20th century. Over some 50 years, Messiaen created a body of works for the great Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Church of La Trinité in Paris, where he was active throughout most of his life. All of these have been gathered in this boxed-set of Hans-Ola Ericsson’s highly acclaimed recordings, many originally released as single discs between 1989 and 1992. “of outstanding quality, both musical and technical” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | (also available to download from $38.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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