Browse: Messiaen - Prelude

Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match this new release in its balanced conception or consistency of execution…Soares... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

Bessette walks your ears inside the moving cogs of Messiaen's mosaic structure, where many pianists merely float them along its surface. From the clangourous timpani of resonating strikes at... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 More…

Apparition is especially effective in the marvellous SACD sound, and Inger-Lise Ulsrud draws searing textures from the organ at St Nikolai in Halmstad, Sweden. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The organ of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle evidently has the power and range of colour that Messiaen regarded as pre-requisites in his music, all captured in a vibrant recording that is... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For a way to focus on the excellence of the performance and the notes themselves, without a monolithic French instrument taking centre-stage, this is a disc worth hearing. — Choir & Organ, May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…