DVD Video, Messiaen (composer)
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At more than three and a half hours, the eponymous documentary has an expansiveness comparable to that of the composer’s later cycles, but its division into four parts makes relatively assimilable... — More…
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 & Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle’s performance of Messiaen’s 1963 score superbly well, and the control of rhythm and colour is exemplary. The LSO winds and percussion are on superb form and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s contribution... — More…
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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Grand Opening Concert
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, 11.01.2017
Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock
There are plenty of musical highlights – oboist Kalev Kuljus’s exquisite ‘Pan’, from Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; a lithe, light-textured finale from Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony;... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
Camilla Tilling (Angel), Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Hubert Delamboye (Leper), Henk Neven (Frère Léon), Tom Randle (Frère Massée), Donald Kaasch (Frère Élie), Armand Arapian (Frère Bernard), Jan Willem Baljet (Frère Sylvestre), André Morsch (Frère Rufin)
The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra &...
This Netherlands Opera production from Pierre Audi… is a triumph of wonderfully inventive, yet sympathetic direction. The imagery follows Messiaen's knack for sophisticated simplicity. His... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, DVD of the Month
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King is a fine organist at the helm of a fine instrument, and steers Mendelssohn’s E minor fugue to a superbly articulated resplendent close. At lightning speed he scuds effortlessly up and... — More…
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