{"product_id":"pre-order-messiaen-complete-pno-works-cd","title":"Messiaen: Complete Pno Works [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-I. Regard Du Père\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-II. Regard de L'étoile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-III. L'échange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-IV. Regard de la Vierge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-V. Regard Du Fils Sur Le Fils\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VI. Par Lui Tout a ÉTÉ Fait\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VII. Regard de la Croix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-VIII. Regard Des Hauteurs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-IX. Regard Du Temps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-X. Regard de L'esprit de Joie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XI. Première Communion de la Vierge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XII. La Parole Toute-Puissante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIII. Noël\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIV. Regard Des Anges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XV. Le Baiser de L'enfant-Jésus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVI. Regard Des Prophètes, Des Bergers Et Des Mages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVII. Regard Du Silence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XVIII. Regard de L'onction Terrible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XIX. Je Dors, Mais Mon Coeur Veille\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus-XX. Regard de L'eglise D'amour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-I. Le Rouge-Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-II. Le Merle Noir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-III. Le Rouge-Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-IV. La Grive Musicienne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-V. Le Rouge-Gorge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetites Esquisses D'oiseaux-VI. L'alouette Des Champs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: I. Le Chocard Des Alpes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: II. Le Loriot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre I: III. Le Merle Bleu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre II: IV. Le Traquet Stapazin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre III: V. La Chouette Hulotte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre III: VI. L'alouette Lulu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre IV: VII. La Rousserolle Effarvatte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre V: VIII. L'alouette Calandrelle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre V: IX. La Bouscarle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VI: X. Le Merle de Roche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XI. La Buse Variable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XII. Le Traquet Rieur\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalogue D'oiseaux-Livre VII: XIII. 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