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Special offer. Messiaen - Complete Organ Works

Olivier Latry

Messiaen - Complete Organ Works

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the cathedral resounds with the meeting between the music, the instrument, and what [Latry] calls 'its jewel-case of stone'....it's actually possible simply to revel in the extraordinary sounds...

Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002

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Special offer. Messiaen - Complete Organ Works

Olivier Latry

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Awards:

the cathedral resounds with the meeting between the music, the instrument, and what [Latry] calls 'its jewel-case of stone'....it's actually possible simply to revel in the extraordinary sounds...

Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002

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2002 is the tenth anniversary of Messiaen's death. This 6 CD box set of the complete works was recorded on the organ of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris by Olivier Latry. Latry has been the titular organist of the cathedral of Notre Dame since 1985.

Messiaen himself could think of no better interpreter of his organ music than Olivier Latry. Yvonne Messiaen, the composer's widow, quotes what her husband said about Oliver Latry: "Olivier Messiaen talked about Olivier Latry as "the new Marcel Dupré". Interpreter, improviser, teacher; his qualities are manifold. His virtuosity, the immensity of his repertoire, his knowledge of all styles. It is difficult to choose what to admire most! Olivier Latry is a master with hands of light, who can restore all the love, the joy and the colours Olivier Messiaen lay into his music."

Contents and tracklist

Messiaen: Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle
Work length9:45
Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
Work length1:02:58
1. La vierge et l'enfant
Track length6:44
2. Les bergers
Track length7:57
3. Desseins éternels
Track length5:14
4. Le verbe
Track length14:01
5. Les enfants de Dieu
Track length4:03
6. Les anges
Track length3:36
7. Jésus accepte la souffrance
Track length5:03
8. Les mages
Track length6:35
9. Dieu parmi nous
Track length9:45
Messiaen: Le Banquet Céleste
Work length7:03
Messiaen: Offrande au Saint Sacrement
Work length5:03
Messiaen: Diptyque
Work length11:21
Messiaen: Les corps glorieux (1939)
Work length54:58
1. Subtilité des corps glorieux
Track length5:51
2. Les eaux de la grâce
Track length4:22
3. L'ange aux parfums
Track length7:29
1. Combat de la mort et de la vie
Track length18:57
1. Force et agilité des corps glorieux
Track length4:11
2. Joie et clarté des corps glorieux
Track length6:22
3. Le mystère de la sainte Trinité
Track length7:46
Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité
Work length1:12:10
Méditation I
Track length8:18
Méditation II
Track length9:46
Méditation III
Track length3:55
Méditation IV
Track length5:40
Méditation V
Track length9:56
Méditation VI
Track length7:17
Méditation VII
Track length6:39
Méditation VIII
Track length11:10
Méditation IX
Track length9:29
Messiaen: Prélude pour orgue
Work length8:59
Messiaen: Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace
Work length8:03
Messiaen: Monodie
Work length2:53
Messiaen: L'Ascension (Quatre meditations pour l'orchestre)
Work length27:10
1. Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son père
Track length6:46
2. Alléluias sereins d'un âme qui désire le ciel
Track length6:44
3. Transports de joie d'un âme devant la gloire ... Chr
Track length4:41
4. Prière du Christ montant vers son père
Track length8:59
Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecote
Work length28:34
1. Entrée (Les langues de feu)
Track length2:41
2. Offertoire (Les choses visibles et invisibles)
Track length11:46
3. Consécration (Le don de sagesse)
Track length3:58
4. Communion (Les oiseaux et les sources)
Track length6:45
5. Sortie (Le vent de l'esprit)
Track length3:24
Messiaen: Livre d'Orgue
Work length44:52
1. Reprises par interversion
Track length5:58
2. Pièce en trio
Track length2:14
3. Les mains de l'âbime
Track length8:01
4. Chants d'oiseaux
Track length7:41
5. Pièce en trio
Track length8:25
6. Les yeux dans les roues
Track length1:58
7. Soixante-quatre durées
Track length10:35
Messiaen: Livre du Saint-Sacrement
Work length1:41:29
1. Adoro te
Track length3:41
2. La source de vie
Track length1:47
3. Le Dieu caché
Track length6:13
4. Acte de foi
Track length2:16
5. Puer natus est nobis
Track length5:55
6. La manne et le pain de vie
Track length10:08
7. Les ressucités et la lumière de vie
Track length5:14
8. Institution de l'eucharistie
Track length5:50
9. Les ténèbres
Track length4:24
10. La résurrection du Christ
Track length4:23
11. L'apparition du Christ ressuscité à Marie-Madeleine
Track length13:09
12. La Transsubstantiation
Track length5:05
13. Les deux murailles d'eau
Track length7:24
14. Prière avant la communion
Track length5:33
15. La joie de la grâce
Track length5:25
16. Prière après la communion
Track length4:18
17. La présence multiplée
Track length3:28
18. Offrande et Alleluia final
Track length7:16

Awards and reviews

20th November 2002

the cathedral resounds with the meeting between the music, the instrument, and what [Latry] calls 'its jewel-case of stone'....it's actually possible simply to revel in the extraordinary sounds [Messiaen] makes, his intimate understanding of the instrument he wrote for and the colours and textures he could draw from it.
Andrew McGregor

New York Times December 2003

Since 1985 (when he was only 23), Mr. Latry has been one of the three titulaires at France's grandest cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris, whose organ is at heart another Cavaillé-Coll instrument. What makes his new boxed set special is the sound of that instrument. At Messiaen's many ecstatic climaxes or eerie epiphanies, the musical colors emanating from this organ truly seem to be breathing the air of other planets. It's a more amazing sound even than that of Messiaen's own instrument. Yet as another organ built at almost exactly the same time and rooted in Cavaille-Coll, it retains an authenticity that other organs inevitably lack.
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