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Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux / Martin Zehn

3 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-09-12

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux
Performers: Zehn, Martin

"It is hard to imagine that the first performance of this mammoth work was nearly 50 years ago. Divided into seven books, the 13 pieces...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Ensemble Incanto

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-02-14

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Incanto

Messiaens biographer, Alain Prier, wrote: Probably never in the history of composition has a work been written under such improbable circumstances. Messiaen was a prisoner...continue...

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus / Zehn

2 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-10-11

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Regards (20) sur l'Enfant-Jésus, for piano, I/27
Performers: Zehn, Martin

Pianist Martin Zehn, a native of Berlin, specializes in modern and contemporary music and is currently recording the complete piano music of Messiaen. He is...continue...

Messiaen: Preludes & Etudes / Martin Zehn

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-03-08

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Preludes (8) for Piano; Études (4) de rhythme; Cantéyodjayâ
Performers: Zehn, Martin

"Like a young Peter Serkin, Zehn has an intrinsic grasp of the mysterious beauty of this music, with a specialized technique to express Messiaen's enormous...continue...