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Olivier Messiaen
(1908 - 1992)

To commemorate the centenary of Messiaen's birth, Chandos is pleased to offer you a selection of repertoire across all our formats, at a discounted price.

French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the most important French composers of the Twentieth Century. His innovative writing is rhythmically complex and exudes the challenging climate of the time he was living. It is fascinating music and well-worth exploration if you are yet to have done so.

If you enjoy the selection we have available, look out for a new release which will be available from the beginning of July of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Performed by the Gould Trio, who were described by the Independent as 'master musicians' along with clarinettist Robert Plane it is truly outstanding, composed during the darkest days when he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. The particular instrumentation – piano, violin, cello and clarinet was determined by these circumstances. The result is an uplifting and spiritual work and Messiaen's most significant contribution to chamber music. Purchase it here from the 1st July.

CHAN 9678
Messiaen: Turangalîla-symphonie

'…finely played and beautifully recorded.’'
Gramophone

CHAN 9301
Messiaen: Works for Wind Ensemble
CHAN 9188
Piet Kee at The Concertgebouw
CHAN 9109
Franck/Saint-Seans: Violin Sonatas · Messiaen: Theme and Variations
GMCD 7309
Symphonic Organ
GMCD 7278
Organ Works
GMCD 7228
Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement
PRCD 925
Messiaen: Organ Master Series, Volumes 5 and 6
PRCD 924
Messiaen: Organ Works, Volume 4
PRCD 922
Messiaen: Organ Works, Volume 2
PRCD 921
Messiaen: Organ Works, Volume 1
PRCD 923
Messiaen: Organ Works, Volume 3
PRCD 798
Greater Love Hath No Man - The Choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
PRCD 261
Great European Organs No. 11
PRCD 272
Great European Organs No. 14
NMC D096
Goehr: Sing, Ariel/The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid/The Death of Moses
AV 0024
Anne Akiko Meyers plays music for Violin and Piano
AV 2084
Poulenc/Messiaen/Villette: Poulenc and his French Contemporaries
UK 2084
Messiaen: Harawi
UK 2085
Messiaen: Poemes pour Mi/Chants de Terre et de Ciel
UK 9028
Messiaen: Organ Works
UK 9090
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen - Book 7

'…one’s jaw drops at Peter Hill’s prodigies of agile dexterity… one of the great moments in all Messiaen, the rapt evocation of a still sunlit afternoon…This is also one of Peter Hill’s great moments as a Messiaen interpreter, finely recorded as ever, and with the beautiful moonlit coda it sets an impressive seal on a most distinguished recording project'
Gramophone

UK 9067
Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement
UK 9005
Messiaen: The Birth of the Lord/The Celestial Banquet
UK 9004
Messiaen: The Bodies in Glory/Diptych
UK 9062
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen - Books 1-3

'…Peter Hill has conveyed the range and contrast of this cycle, its astonishing palette of keyboard texture and colour, with remarkable success'
Gramophone

'The Fires of London conducted by the composer accompany the two soloists with superb ease and brio. Bravo!'
Diapason

UK 9144
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen - Visions de L'Amen

'as distinguished as its predecessors. As ever in this series Hill is supported by a recording of satisfyingly huge range'
Gramophone

UK 9122
The Piano Music of Oliver Messiaen

'What Hill does is allow the listener to come to the music, rather than bring the music to the listener'
Gramophone

UK 9024
Messiaen: Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity/Mass for Whitsun
UK 9075
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen - Books 4-6

'Peter Hill’s virtuosity has needed no proving since his first Messiaen collection appeared but his command of colours is even more impressive'
Gramophone

UK 9078
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen - Preludes

'this is turning out to be a most distinguished and important series'
Gramophone

'One of the outstanding recording projects in this country in recent years has been the cycle of the piano music of Olivier Messiaen played by Peter Hill'
Anthony Burton BBC 3 Record Review

(all prices plus postage and packaging )
(All CDs are subject to availability)
(Orders of more than one set may be despatched separately and may arrive at different times)

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