Messiaen - L'œuvre pour orgue - La Dolce Volta: LDV49-1 - 3 CDs

With the relatively new neo-baroque Metzler organ at Saint-Pierre, Geneva, this was ground-breaking stuff both in terms of the virtuosic playing of Thiry and the first stereo recording of Messiaen’s... — Choir & Organ, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: LDV49-1
Label: La Dolce Volta

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Messiaen: Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: L'Ascension (organ version)

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: Le Banquet Céleste

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: Les Corps Glorieux

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: Livre d'Orgue

Louis Thiry (organ)

Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecote

Louis Thiry (organ)

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It is in his organ music that Olivier Messiaen most perfectly expresses the originality and power of his temperament. The instrument was for a long time the privileged vehicle of spiritual meditation for Messiaen, who used it to explore all the possibilities of his instrumental language and succeeded in renewing his musical aesthetic without ever renouncing tradition.

Louis Thiry’s version is striking for its grandiose inspiration and intense spirituality. The organist Louis Thiry (of whom Messiaen himself wrote: “Louis Thiry is an extraordinary organist. An accomplished virtuoso, a total musician, with an unparalleled memory and skill: he can be classified among the heroes of music!”) easily and undemonstratively copes with all the difficulties accumulated by the composer. He then goes even further by admirably recreating the teeming richness of this strongly coloured, contrasted music.

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May 2019

With the relatively new neo-baroque Metzler organ at Saint-Pierre, Geneva, this was ground-breaking stuff both in terms of the virtuosic playing of Thiry and the first stereo recording of Messiaen’s work. There is a poetic understanding of the music from one of the great virtuosi of his time who worked closely with Messiaen on this music – a musical record worthy of such a well-presented re-release.

Messiaen - L'œuvre pour orgue

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