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Olivier Messiaen



French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). His musical language is derived from a number of varied sources, including Greek metrical rhytms, Hindu tradition, birdsong and catholicism. Messiaen became organist at the church of la Trinité in Paris, a position he held until his death.
Messiaen found birdsong fascinating; he believed birds to be the greatest musicians and considered himself as much an ornithologist as a composer. He notated birdsongs worldwide, and he incorporated birdsong transcriptions into a majority of his music. His innovative use of colour, his personal conception of the relationship between time and music, his use of birdsong, and his intent to express profound religious ideas, all combine to make it almost impossible to mistake a composition by Messiaen for the work of any other western composer.
 



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Fantasy
ALPHA1021
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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphony
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24 FLAC Discount In their first release on harmonia mundi, Gu...
  
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa
ALPHA1048
  
Influences
PTC5186741D
  
What Remains
DRC1110
24 FLAC Discount The new album by the Dudok Quartet takes its...
  
Jazz (Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen)
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24 FLAC Discount Musical as well as marital partners, Julia I...
  
Souvenirs d’oiseaux
DDA 21240
English pianist Roderick Chadwick has recorded the second volume...
  
Obscurus
DRC1105
24 FLAC Discount Obscurus is an exploration of the obscured, ...
  
Visions
PTC5186957
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Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles
MIR622D
  
Lost & Found
PTC5186988
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Schoenberg, Messiaen & Ravel: Orchestral Works
PTC5186949
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and its Music and Artistic Di...
  
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, I/22
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Songs of Hope - Poulenc: Priez pour paix, FP 95
NMM105DS3
  
Rhythm & the Borrowed Past
ORC100182
  
Limoncello: Celebrating Chamber Music
PTC5186292
  
Chère Nuit
CHAN20222W
  
Images
SIGCD688
  
Mendelssohn, Willan, Franck & Others: Organ Works
ACD22857
  
Chère nuit: French Songs
CHAN20222
  
La mer bleue
DDA25209
  
French Piano Rarities
8.573894
This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and re...
  
Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49
8.573979
Olivier Messiaen’s Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trini...
  
Influences
PTC5186741
INFLUENCES AS THE KEY TO AUTHENTICITY On her first PENTATONE ...
  
Reger, J.S. Bach, Messiaen & Others: Works for Organ
8573912
  
Evocation
Steinway30096
  
Cavatine
ACD22787
  
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
MIR334D
The Quatuor pour la fin du Temps is one of the most fascinating ...
  
Debussy: Etudes - Messiaen: Fauvettes de l'Hérault - Concert des garrigues
905304DI
  
Sacrum convivium
MIR366D
24 FLAC Discount The CD Sacrum convivium presents a vision of...
  
Messiaen: L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 3
LDV51D
  
Messiaen: L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 2
LDV50D
  
Messiaen: L'œuvre pour orgue, Vol. 1
LDV49D
  
Messiaen: Livre d'orgue
8573845
  
Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, I/42
PTC5186670
  
Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi & 3 Petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
SSM1016
  
Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur & Offrande au Saint-Sacrement
SH163
  
Pange Lingua: Music for Corpus Christi
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24 FLAC Discount Continuing its series of music for the litur...
  
La symphonie des oiseaux
MIR327D
  
23 Vocalises-Etudes for saxophone and piano
BIS9056
This recording is a co-production with Radio SRF 2 Kultur To ...
  
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