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 | Messiaen - Organ Works Volume 1
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (The Organ of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle) “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.”.” Arnold Whittall (The Gramophone) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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 | Messiaen - The Organ Works Vol. 3
Gillian Weir (Organ of Århus Cathedral, Denmark) "This is a Messiaen cycle that should now enter the shelves of every devotee of his music as a preferred version" BBC Music Magazine (Best CD's of 1994) "Weir's virtuosity and control are staggering. An achievement of outstanding musical integrity." The Gramophone (1995 Instrumental Award nominee) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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 | Messiaen - The Complete Organ Music, Volume 4
Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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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 3 - 4 working days. |
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 | Olivier Messiaen - Centenary Edition
Louis Thiry (organ of Geneva Cathedral) 1972 recordings. This centenary set from Calliope is a well-timed reminder of
the great recordings that continue to emanate from this label.
Messiaen’s many distinguished pupils included Pierre Boulez,
Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife),
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and George Benjamin.
Louis Thiry recorded almost all the organ works, after
working on the scores with the composer in these first
stereo recordings. | 
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 | Messiaen Organ Works
| EMI - 7674002 (CD - 4 discs) £22.99 (£19.57 ex. VAT) |
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 | Messiaen - Organ Works (Complete)
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." 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. The New York Times, December 2003 | DG - 4714802 (CD - 6 discs) £66.99 (£57.01 ex. VAT) |
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 | Messiaen - The Organ Works
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 | Messiaen Edition Volume 1Piano Works, Organ Works & Songs
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 |
| | | Scheduled for release on 14 July 2008. Order it now and we will deliver it as soon as it is available. |
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