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Messiaen Edition

18 CD / Erato / 2011-04-26

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (6), for piano, I/54; Preludes (8) for Piano; Études (4) de rhythme; La nativité du Seigneur; Le banquet céleste; Apparition de l'&e...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Alain, Marie-Claire; Barboteu, Georges; Chauvaut, Rene; Cotton, Roger [Tenor Vocalist]; Deplus, Guy; Dupin, Francois; Fernandez, Huguette; Guigui, Charley; Haniotis, Mario; Ja...
Conductors: Couraud, Marcel; Constant, Marius; Nagano, Kent; Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: ; Groupe Instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg; ORTF Ensemble "Ars Nova"

This 18-CD set offers a comprehensive overview of Messiaen's work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000. The performers include the composer himself, his wife...continue...

Olivier Messiaen - Complete Edition

32 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2008-12-09

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Preludes (8) for Piano; La fauvette des jardins; Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (6), for piano, I/54; Études (4) de rhythme; Cantéyodjayâ; Rondeau, for piano, I/24;...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Banlaky, Akos; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Barker, Noelle; Cantin, Catherine; Collerette, Hélène; C...
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun; Nagano, Kent; Boulez, Pierre; ; Kreder, Jean-Paul; Davis, Andrew; Chailly, Riccardo; Rickenbacher, Karl Anton
Ensemble: ; Members of the Ensemble Le Madrigal (Members); Sextuor Jeanne Loriod

The 2008 Messiaen celebrations come to an overwhelming climax with this superb 32-CD set of his complete works. This limited edition set from Deutsche Grammophon...continue...

Garden of Love's Sleep - Messiaen / Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Barenboim, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2008-08-26

Works: Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!; Turangalîla-Symphonie; MESSIAEN, Vingt Regards, Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus (XV); Éclairs sur l'au-delà...; Quatuor pour la fin du te...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Latry, Olivier; Loriod, Jeanne; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Muraro, Roger; Muzzolini, Renaud; Ogdon, John; Yordanoff, Luben
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun
Ensemble: Bastille Opera Orchestra; French National Radio Orchestra; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Chorus

This release celebrates the 100th anniversary of French composer Oliver Messiaen. It is a compilation of Messiaen's ecstatic slow movements: a sequence of eight movements...continue...

Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Visions de l'Amen / De Leeuw, Loriod, et al

6 CD / Naïve / 2008-05-27

Works: Olivier Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ; Visions de l'amen; Sept haïkaï, for piano, 13 winds, 6 percussion & 8 violins, I/45; Couleurs de la cité c...
Performers: Boer, Harmen de; Bon, Maarten; Bon, Marja; Dullaert, Hans; Gijsegem, Ludwig van; Holthaus, Reiner; Leeuw, Reinbert de; Loo, Martine van der; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Muruzabal, Arturo; Promme...
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de; Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; Hilversum Radio Symphony Orchestra; Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Percussion Group The Hague; Schoenberg Ensemble

BBC Music Magazine
A marvellous six disc box from Nanve that handily gathers previously issued live performances. àmy admiration for de Leeuw's La Transfiguration, which is...continue...

Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles / Chung, Justafré, et al

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2003-01-14

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles
Performers: Justafre, Jean-Jacques; Muraro, Roger; Muzzolini, Renaud; Petit, Francis
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun
Ensemble: ORTF Philharmonic Orchestra

"This performance by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France directed by Messiaen specialist Myung-Whun Chung is a mellow contrast to Esa-Pekka Salonen's piercing, modernist reading...continue...