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Download, Messiaen (composer)
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Special offer. Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
RecommendedYuja Wang (piano), Cécile Lartigau (ondes martenot)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Whether adding the most delicate filigree to the symphony’s more reflective movements, like the sixth, Jardín du Sommeil d’ Amour, providing virtuoso punctuation to the eighth, Développement... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida have the kind of symbiosis that comes from having performed this repertoire together for many years, moving as one in the Wagnerian ebb and flow of Debussy’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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Special offer. Messiaen: L'Ascension, Le Tombeau resplendissant, Les Offrandes oubliées, Un Sourire
RecommendedTonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
This is the first recording to do full justice to Le tombeau resplendissant...The piece emerges not as an inferior sequel to Les offrandes oubliées but as a powerful and deeply personal symphonic... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. La Fauvette Passerinette
A Messiaen premiere with birds, landscapes and homages
Peter Hill (piano)
Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Few, if any, duos are better equipped to take on this mantle than Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich.Aimard’s exceptionally close association with Messiaen and Loriod goes back to... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Chamayou certainly possesses the scintillating technique and broad palette of tonal colour required for Messiaen’s extraordinary music. As is clear from the thunderous explosions under the bells... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Piano
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Special offer. Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphony
RecommendedMarc-André Hamelin (piano), Nathalie Forget (ondes martenot), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
Where Gimeno makes the piece his own is in the complex rhythmic games of the three ‘Turangalîla’ movements, coolly coordinating them with a species of lateDebussian sensuality that Boulez might... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Messiaen
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Vilde Frang (violin), Charles Sy (tenor)
This is personal. It is also special…[Chamayou's] exceptionally strong pedigree In Messiaen is apparent throughout and, as might be expected, this music fits Hannigan's superlative talents like... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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