Messiaen - Couleurs de la cité céleste
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Messiaen Edition
RecommendedAn 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.
Olivier Messiaen, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yvonne Loriod (piano), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maria Oràn (soprano), Huguette Fernandez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano), pianos, Rachel Yakar (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique...
Messiaen's own performance of the large organ cycle Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte-Trinité is included amongst the goodies on offer here. …it is thoroughly compulsive listening, and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Special Review
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. Messiaen: Works for Wind Ensemble
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw
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Debussy, Messiaen & Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Emanuel Ax (piano)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert
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Special offer. Olivier Messiaen, Vol. 1
Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), Yvonne Loriod (piano)
Pierre Boulez
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Myung-Whun Chung conducts Messiaen
Roger Muraro (piano), Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot) & Hélène Collerette (violon solo), Catherine Cournot (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung
…Trois Petites Liturgies de la présence divine… is one of his most deliciously beguiling works, especially in this beautiful new recording from Myung-Whun Chung. Roger Muraro dispatches the... — More…
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Pierre Boulez Edition: Stravinsky, Messiaen, Dukas & Falla
Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), Igor Kipnis (harpsichord), Paige Brook (flute), Harold Gomberg (oboe), Stanley Drucker (clarinet), Eliot Chapo (violin), Lorne Munroe (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paul Jacobs (piano), The Cleveland...
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Special offer. Messiaen: Sept Haïkaï and other works
Yvonne Loriod (piano)
Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez
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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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