Messiaen: Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux (Small sketches of birds)

This page lists all recordings of Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux (Small sketches of birds), 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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Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux Book 7, etc.

Messiaen:

Catalogue d'oiseaux Book 7

La Fauvette des jardins

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Peter Hill (piano)

Regis - RRC1110

(CD)

$7.49

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Messiaen - Les oiseaux

Messiaen - Les oiseaux

Messiaen:

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Cantéyodjayâ

Prelude

La Fauvette des jardins

Louise Bessette (piano)

Louise Bessette has received many awards for her interpretation of contemporary music and has made more than a dozen recordings. As well as Les oiseaux, here she performs two other compositions by Messiaen, Cantéyodjayâ and Prélude.

“Cantéyodjayâ is one of Messiaen's greatest free-standing keyboard pieces, an extraordinary explosion of rhythmic energy and virtuosity, whose method of arranging ideas like a mosaic opened a new phase in his development. Its power and strength are balanced at the other end of the disc by the biggest of all the solo-piano bird pieces, La Fauvette des Jardins, The Garden Warbler, which is all that Messiaen completed (in 1970) of what might have been another volume of the Catalogue d'Oiseaux. Bessette plays them both with a great deal of understanding…” The Guardian, 3rd July 2009 ***

“Bessette walks your ears inside the moving cogs of Messiaen's mosaic structure, where many pianists merely float them along its surface. From the clangourous timpani of resonating strikes at the opening to her responsive treatment of Messiaen's transforming block-chord sequences, this performance has a rare depth of aural perspective. ...reminding us that Cantéyodjayâ is the link between the interlocking cycles inside Vingt Regards and the more fragmented Catalogue d'oiseaux.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2009

Analekta - AN29960

(CD)

$16.99

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Messiaen: Piano Works

Messiaen: Piano Works

Messiaen:

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Four Rhythmic Studies

Cantéyodjayâ

Rondeau

Fantaisie burlesque

Prelude

Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Roger Muraro (piano)

Accord - 4616452

(CD)

$18.49

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Messiaen - Catalogue d'Oiseaux

Messiaen - Catalogue d'Oiseaux

Messiaen:

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

La Fauvette des jardins

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Carl-Axel Dominique (piano)

BIS - BISCD594/6

(CD - 3 discs)

$49.99

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Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete), etc.

Messiaen:

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Hakon Austbo (piano)

Naxos - 8553532-34

(CD - 3 discs)

$16.99

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Messiaen - The Complete Solo Piano Works

Messiaen - The Complete Solo Piano Works

Messiaen:

Preludes (8)

Fantaisie burlesque

Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Rondeau

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Cantéyodjayâ

Quatre Études de rythme

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Prélude pour piano

La Fauvette des jardins

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Roger Muraro (piano)

Accord - 4619072

(CD - 7 discs)

$102.49

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Messiaen - The Piano Works

Messiaen - The Piano Works

Messiaen:

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

La Fauvette des jardins

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos

Preludes (8)

Quatre Études de rythme

Cantéyodjayâ

Fantaisie burlesque

Rondeau

Peter Hill (piano)

Regis - RRC7001

(CD - 7 discs)

$36.99

Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days.

Messiaen Edition Volume 1

Messiaen Edition Volume 1

Piano Works, Organ Works & Songs

Messiaen:

Le Banquet Céleste

Willem Tanke (organ)

Diptyque

Willem Tanke (organ)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

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 mystère de la Sainte Trinité

Willem Tanke (organ)

Livre du Saint-Sacrement

Willem Tanke (organ)

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Peter Hill (piano)

Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-7 (Complete)

Peter Hill (piano)

Preludes (8)

Peter Hill (piano)

Quatre Études de rythme

Peter Hill (piano)

Cantéyodjayâ

Peter Hill (piano)

Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas

Peter Hill (piano)

Fantaisie burlesque

Peter Hill (piano)

Rondeau

Peter Hill (piano)

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Peter Hill (piano)

Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos

Peter Hill (piano) & Benjamin Frith (piano)

Trois Mélodies

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Håkon Austbø (piano)

Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Håkon Austbø (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Håkon Austbø (piano)

Harawi (Chants d'amour et de Mort)

Ingrid Kappelle (soprano) & Håkon Austbø (piano)

La Fauvette des jardins

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.

“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 *****

“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 Magazine

Brilliant Classics - 8949

(CD - 17 discs)

$52.99

Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days.

Messiaen Edition

Messiaen Edition

An 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.

Messiaen:

Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Preludes (8)

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Quatre Études de rythme

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

La Nativité du Seigneur

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Le Banquet Céleste

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Marie-Claire Alain (organ)

Poèmes pour Mi, books 1 & 2 (complete)

Maria Oràn (soprano), Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Chants de Terre et de Ciel

Maria Oràn (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 chœurs de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos

Katia and Marièlle Labèque, pianos

Les Offrandes oubliées (1930)

Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Hymne au Saint-Sacrement

Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF, Marcel Couraud

Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Harawi (Chants d'amour et de Mort)

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)

La Fauvette des jardins

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Le Réveil des oiseaux

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Orchestre National de France, Kent Nagano

Couleurs de la cité céleste

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Groupe Instrumental à Percussion de Strasbourg, Orchestre du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez

Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Groupe Instrumental à Percussion de Strasbourg, Orchestre du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez

L'Ascension (Quatre meditations pour l'orchestre)

Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF, Marius Constant

3 Petites liturgies de la Presence Divine

Yvonne Loriod (piano), Jeanne Loriod (onde Martenot)

Maîtrise et Orchestre de Chambre de la RTF, Marcel Couraud

Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité

Olivier Messiaen, organ (Recorded on the Cavaillé-Coll organ in La Trinité Church, Paris)

Des Canyons aux Étoiles

Yvonne Loriod (piano), Georges Barboteu (horn), Alain Jacquet (xylorimba), François Dupin (glockenspiel)

Ensemble Ars Nova, Marius Constant

Sept Haïkaï

Yvonne Loriod (piano)

Ensemble Ars Nova, Marius Constant

Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Marie-Claire Alain, Katia and Marielle Labeque

Kent Nagano & Pierre Boulez

includes a disc of Olivier Messiaen interviewed by Claude Samuel (in French), 1988

“A bumper bargain box of some of the greatest recordings-compulsive.” BBC Music Magazine, 1st October 2005

“…her playing is nothing short of magnificent – superb range of sonority, rock-sure rhythm, unfailing attention to polyphonic strands, thrilling attack and tender caress in equal measure. … Under her touch there seems to be no such thing as a worn-out harmony or an unmusical one.” Gramophone Magazine (on Yvonne Loriod's piano performances on these CDs)

BBC Music Magazine

Special Review - October 2005

Warner Classics - 2564621622

(CD - 18 discs)

$78.99

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