Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen & Kurtág: Die sieben Worte

…the unflagging energy and sweep the pianists bring to the full-throated, extrovert writing in the long 'Amen du desir' (No 4) and the finale's exultant last pages convey Messiaen's ecstatic,... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2006 More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2005
Catalogue No: COL20105
Label: Col Legno

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Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen for 2 pianos

Andreas Grau (piano), Gotz Schumacher (piano)

Kurtág: Die sieben Worte (fragments of Heinrich Schütz's work) for piano 4 hands

Andreas Grau (piano), Gotz Schumacher (piano)

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Last things and Christian visions: György Kurtág's reflections on Heinrich Schütz, and Olivier Messiaen in search of the "Amen."

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April 2006

…the unflagging energy and sweep the pianists bring to the full-throated, extrovert writing in the long 'Amen du desir' (No 4) and the finale's exultant last pages convey Messiaen's ecstatic, uplifting intentions without ever sounding episodic or bombastic. György Kurtág's stark and transparent arrangement of Schütz's Die sieben Worte for one-piano-four-hands add up to a slow, contemplative prelude that assiduously slips into the agonising quiet of Messiaen's opening movement: an unusual and effective programming idea.

Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen & Kurtág: Die sieben Worte

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