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KAI 22302CD
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"Olivier Messiaen saw birds as his greatest teachers, capturing their songs with passion and precision. His piano works, especially 'Catalogue d'oiseaux' and 'Petites esquisses d'oiseaux,' translate birdsong into rich, colorful music. Messiaen's fascination with rhythm, color, and nature shaped his compositions, blending ornithology with spirituality. Pianist Alfonso Gómez delivers an astonishing interpretation on this recording, adding to his acclaimed discography for this label. As Messiaen himself said: 'Nature, birdsong! These are my passions. They are also my refuge.'"
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2CD/SACD
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NEOS 10907-8CD
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"Markus Bellheim opens the present recording of the piano works of Olivier Messiaen with a major piece, one in which various key elements of the composer's later music come well to the fore: a French sense of mysticism, synesthesia, the ascetic, the love of the voices of nature, and the notion that our senses may be honed if we listen in to foreign musical cultures with their rich hoard of melody and rhythm. In 'Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages,' exotic colours dominate. And in 'Regard de l'Esprit de Joie,' the Oriental source of Gregorian chant is immediately recognizable. The 'Vingt Regards' were written in 1944 in Paris, in the months before the city was freed. They are a document of expectation, of contemporaneity, and are an expression of an unruly era in which life would be defined anew and where a hunger for the future was to exist." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACDs that can be played on any CD player.
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DUX 848/49CD
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Twenty Gazes Upon The Infant Jesus. Performed by Eugeniusz Knapik - piano. "The significance of Olivier Messiaen in the history of the 20th century music is exceptional. His willingness to face great, beyond-musical ideas and at the same time show incredible intensity and passion of expression -- these are, apart from purely technical virtues, the most distinguishing features and strengths of his music."
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