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Ciro Longobardi - Messiaen: Complete Pno Works [CD]

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the album cover for Ciro Longobardi - Messiaen: Complete Pno Works

First City Records

Ciro Longobardi - Messiaen: Complete Pno Works [CD]

SKU 44041982
$43.99
the album cover for Ciro Longobardi - Messiaen: Complete Pno Works

'A lush, intricate success - meaningful for Messiaen enthusiasts and enjoyable for those new to his work. I highly recommend it.' This review from Fanfare magazine is one of several in the international press to have recognised the achievement of Ciro Longobardi while in the midst of recording the complete piano music of Olivier Messiaen, in a cycle which is now issued complete for the first time, and at budget price. The piano music of Messiaen spans times and idioms ranging from the Debussyan Preludes of 1928-9, written when the composer was barely out of his teens, through to the jewel-like Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux, from 1985 and one of his last works before his death in 1992. While every bar of the music is distinctively and instantly 'Messiaen', that idiom evolved a good deal over the years, and came to a kind of peak as well as a crisis in the Catalogue d'Oiseaux from the late 1950s. This 13-movement cycle is the only one of Messiaen's major works to end in darkness and despair, with the lonely song of the warbler piercing a pitch-black Brittany seascape, accompanied only by the mournful boom of a lighthouse and the endless rolling of waves against a stony shore. Messiaen could 'paint' such pictures in sound as vividly as a Debussy or a Richard Strauss before him, but he could also lift his gaze towards a heaven which was as real for him as the earth below. Hence both the all-encompassing power and tender sincerity of the Vingt Regards, composed during the depths of the Second World War, which retains enduring popularity even among musicians and audiences who are challenged either by musical complexity or by direct appeal to the emotions. This set is thus the fruit of years of living with the music, as well as the years spent recording it. Ciro Longobardi has performed Messiaen in recital and at festivals across Europe, throughout a career spanning three decades which began with his prize-winning appearance at the International Gaudeamus Competition in Rotterdam in 1994. This important Messiaen set is accompanied by his own reflections on the music, as well as the composer's own programme notes.

Tracklist:

  1. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-I. Regard Du Père
  2. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-II. Regard de L'étoile
  3. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-III. L'échange
  4. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-IV. Regard de la Vierge
  5. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-V. Regard Du Fils Sur Le Fils
  6. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VI. Par Lui Tout a ÉTÉ Fait
  7. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VII. Regard de la Croix
  8. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VIII. Regard Des Hauteurs
  9. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-IX. Regard Du Temps
  10. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-X. Regard de L'esprit de Joie
  11. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XI. Première Communion de la Vierge
  12. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XII. La Parole Toute-Puissante
  13. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIII. Noël
  14. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIV. Regard Des Anges
  15. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XV. Le Baiser de L'enfant-Jésus
  16. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVI. Regard Des Prophètes, Des Bergers Et Des Mages
  17. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVII. Regard Du Silence
  18. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVIII. Regard de L'onction Terrible
  19. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIX. Je Dors, Mais Mon Coeur Veille
  20. Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XX. Regard de L'eglise D'amour
  21. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-I. Le Rouge-Gorge
  22. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-II. Le Merle Noir
  23. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-III. Le Rouge-Gorge
  24. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-IV. La Grive Musicienne
  25. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-V. Le Rouge-Gorge
  26. Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux-VI. L'alouette Des Champs
  27. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: I. Le Chocard Des Alpes
  28. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: II. Le Loriot
  29. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: III. Le Merle Bleu
  30. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre II: IV. Le Traquet Stapazin
  31. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre III: V. La Chouette Hulotte
  32. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre III: VI. L'alouette Lulu
  33. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre IV: VII. La Rousserolle Effarvatte
  34. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre V: VIII. L'alouette Calandrelle
  35. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre V: IX. La Bouscarle
  36. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VI: X. Le Merle de Roche
  37. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XI. La Buse Variable
  38. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XII. Le Traquet Rieur
  39. Catalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XIII. Le Courlis Cendré
  40. Huit Préludes-La Colombe
  41. Huit Préludes-Chant D'extase Dans Un Paysage Triste
  42. Huit Préludes-Le Nombre Léger
  43. Huit Préludes-Instants Défunts
  44. Huit Préludes-Les Sons Impalpables Du Rêve
  45. Huit Préludes-Cloches D'angoisse Et Larmes D'adieu
  46. Huit Préludes-Plainte Calme
  47. Huit Préludes-Un Reflet Dans Le Vent
  48. Fantaisie Burlesque
  49. Pièce Pour Le Tombeau de Paul Dukas
  50. Rondeau
  51. Cantéyodjay
  52. Quatre Études de Rythme-Ile de Feu I
  53. Quatre Études de Rythme-Mode de Valeurs Et D'intensités
  54. Quatre Études de Rythme-Neumes Rythmiques
  55. Quatre Études de Rythme-Ile de Feu II
  56. Fauvette Des Jardins

UPC: 5063758972956
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 2.27.26
Format: CD

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