Messiaen Edition
An 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...
Awards:
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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
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...
Messiaen Edition
An 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...
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Special Review
-
Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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...
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Contents and tracklist
- Yvonne Loriod (piano), María Orán (soprano)
- Yvonne Loriod (piano), María Orán (soprano)
- Yvonne Loriod (piano), María Orán (soprano)
- Guy Deplus (clarinet), Huguette Fernandez (violin), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano)
- Josette Pudleitner (contralto)
- Chœurs de l'ORTF
- Marcel Couraud
- Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
- Marius Constant
- Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF
- Marius Constant
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week7th July 2008
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BBC Music MagazineOctober 2005Special Review
October 2005
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 definitive only in that it reveals just how much leeway is permitted. ...Yvonne Loriod, Messiaen's second wife... can be heard on 14 of the 26 works, many of them classic performances. There may be better sounding versions of the Vingt regards, but she is still riveting - the fearsome 'Par Lui tout a été fait' has rarely sounded more exciting.
…her playing is nothing short of magnificent – superb range of sonority, rock-sure rhythm, unfailing attention to polyphonic strands, thrilling attack and tender caress in equal measure. … Under her touch there seems to be no such thing as a worn-out harmony or an unmusical one.
