Messiaen: Prelude |
This page lists all recordings of Prelude, 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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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Messiaen - Early Organ Works
Inger-Lise Ulsrud (organ) The first time that any of the organ music of one of the 20th centuries most important composers, Olivier Messiaen, has been available on an SACD hybrid. Although Olivier Messiaen holds the position as the most performed organ composer of the twentieth century, there are still several early works like “Prélude”, and “Offrande au Saint Sacrement” included here on this debut by Norwegian Inger-Lise Ulsrud that are seldom recorded. Some of these pieces were not published until after the composer’s death at the beginning of the 21st century. For this reason, apart from his early masterpiece “Lascension” and “Le Banquet Celeste”, works like the “Diptyque” and “Apparition de l’Église éternelle” are relatively unknown. This is the first disc of Messiaen’s organ music to be released as an SACD hybrid. The featured organ is that of the church of St. Nikolai in Halmstad, Sweden. Inger-Lise Ulsrud graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music and continued her improvisation studies under Professor Anders Bondeman in Stockholm. Since 1993 Inger-Lise Ulsrud has been teaching improvisation and organ literature at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and is now Associate Professor for organ. “Apparition is especially effective in the marvellous SACD sound, and Inger-Lise Ulsrud draws searing textures from the organ at St Nikolai in Halmstad, Sweden.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Organ Works of Olier Messiaen Volumes 5 & 6Organ of Arhus Cathedral, Denmark
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| |  | Messiaen - Les oiseaux
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 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Messiaen - Complete Organ Works Volume 4
Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Harrison organ, St George's Chapel) The final volume in Delphian's survey of Messiaen's complete organ music takes in his earliest published works, in which - in the composer's own words - the 'abundance of technical means allows the heart to overflow freely'.The British Harrison in St George's Chapel,Windsor Castle speaks with a French accent in this music, and Timothy Byram-Wigfield's combination of virtuosic majesty and compelling loving faith has already captured the imagination of reviewers of Volume I.The booklet includes a 3000-word essay by acclaimed Messiaen biographer Nigel Simeone. "… gives full weight to the music's uncompromising intensity" Gramophone "convincing and delightful" Choir & Organ, Sep/Oct “The organ of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle evidently has the power and range of colour that Messiaen regarded as pre-requisites in his music, all captured in a vibrant recording that is magnificent for CD. Timothy Byram-Wigfield bristles with energy in the dynamic movements and exudes clam for Messiaen's slow outpourings of lyricism. ” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Messiaen: Piano Works
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| |  | Messiaen - Piano Music
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