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Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques; Sept Haïkaï; Couleurs De La Cité Céleste; Un Vitrail Et Des Oiseaux; etc.

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques; Sept Haïkaï; Couleurs De La Cité Céleste; Un Vitrail Et Des Oiseaux; etc.
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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Works For Wind And For Piano: Oiseaux Exotiques
  2. Sept Haikai: 1. Introduction
  3. Sept Haikai: 2. Le parc de Nara et les lanternes de Pierre
  4. Sept Haikai: 3. Yamanaka - cadenza
  5. Sept Haikai: 4. Gagaku
  6. Sept Haikai: 5. Miyajima et le torii dans le mer
  7. Sept Haikai: 6. Les oiseaux de Karuizawa
  8. Sept Haikai: 7. Coda
  9. Works For Wind And For Piano: Coulers De La Cite Celeste
  10. Works For Wind And For Piano: Un Vitrail Et Des Oiseaux
  11. Works For Wind And For Piano: La Ville D'En Haut

Disc 2:

  1. Et Expecto Resurrectin em Mortuorum: I. Des profondeurs de l'abime, je crie vers toi, Seigneur: Seigneur, ecoute ma voix!
  2. Et Expecto Resurrectin em Mortuorum: II. Le Christ, ressuscite des morts, ne meurt plus: la mort n'a plus sur lui d'empire
  3. Et Expecto Resurrectin em Mortuorum: III. L'heure vient ou les morts entendront la voix du fils de Dieu...
  4. Et Expecto Resurrectin em Mortuorum: IV. Ils ressusciteront, glorieux, avec un nom nouveau - dan le concert joyeux des etoiles et les acclamations des fils du ciel
  5. Et Expecto Resurrectin em Mortuorum: V. Et j'entendis la voix d'une foule immense...

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #427545 in Music
  • Released on: 1994-11-29
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Dimensions: .37 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Reinbert de Leeuw and his crackerjack musicians negotiate these difficult scores with dazzling aplomb, not to mention pianist Peter Donohoe's razor-sharp timbre and rhythmic suppleness. The bright, close-up recording captures the full gamut of Messiaen's intricate instrumentation with amazing clarity. These words, however, apply less to Et expecto. Here the recorded balances are poor and the playing is surprisingly slack in sections. Moreover, it's the sole work on the set's second disc, and you can't purchase disc one without the other. But those who respond to this composer's ecstatic, colorful sound-world will find much to admire here. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews

Great music5
I've changed my opinion on Messiaen.
I'm having second thoughts on Messiaen.
Now that I know Schnittke well, Messiaen seems to have some issues.
And Wilbod's comments on the opera, St Francsis really has me wondering "just who is Messiaen". What he says kinda shows in his music./
I'm going to keep some Messiaen, others I will dump. This set stays, for the moment. Mid tier compaoser, and certainly not for everyone.
Found other music more worth my time.