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Messiaen: Piano Music / Longobardi
Piano Classics

Messiaen: Piano Music / Longobardi

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Composer
MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
Artist
Ciro Longobardi
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Sep 24, 2021
Catalog #
PCL10202
UPC
5029365102025

About

While most listeners to 20th-century music and piano masterpieces will have recordings of Messiaen’s two major cycles in their collection, the rest of his piano music often tends to fly under the radar. Yet Messiaen wrote piano music throughout his life, and among his most characteristic early works is the set of eight Preludes, with their playful evocations of wind and air and dreams and light. The piano writing may owe much to Debussy’s example, but it’s clear that the 20-year-old composer was already well on its way to developing unique aspects of his language: the blue harmonies, the repetitions and the patient ascensions towards a state of ecstasy that make him among the most imitated of last century’s composers. From the middle period of Messiaen’s protean career, the Quatre études de rythme exercised lasting influence over the most brilliant composers of the avant-garde generation including Boulez and Stockhausen, though their application of the principles of ‘total serialism’ is much less dry and more vivid than countless later imitators. Ciro Longobardi’s album concludes with perhaps the composer’s single most technically challenging piano work, La fauvette des jardins. This half-hour portrait of the reed-warbler stands as an appendix to the Catalogue d’oiseaux, rarely encountered but a feat of coruscating virtuosity to set alongside the Transcendental Etudes of Liszt and the studies of Alkan and Godowsky. The Italian pianist Ciro Longobardi proved his mettle in Messiaen with a glowingly received album of the Catalogue d’oiseaux for Piano

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. La colombe 01:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. La colombe
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  2. 2 No. 2. Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste 07:30
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  3. 3 No. 3. Le nombre léger 01:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Le nombre léger
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  4. 4 No. 4. Instants défunts 03:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Instants défunts
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  5. 5 No. 5. Les sons impalpables du rêve 03:49
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Les sons impalpables du rêve
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  6. 6 No. 6. Cloches d'angoisses et larmes d'adieu 08:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Cloches d'angoisses et larmes d'adieu
    Duration
    08:37
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  7. 7 No. 7. Plainte calme 02:54
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Plainte calme
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  8. 8 No. 8. Un reflet dans le vent 05:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Un reflet dans le vent
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  9. 9 Fantasie Burlesque 07:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fantasie Burlesque
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  10. 10 Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas 02:58
    Track
    10
    Title
    Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  11. 11 Rondeau 02:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    Rondeau
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  12. 12 Cantéyodjayâ 12:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    Cantéyodjayâ
    Duration
    12:52
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  13. 13 No. 1. Île de feu I 02:07
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. Île de feu I
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  14. 14 No. 2. Mode de valeurs et d'intensités 04:30
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. Mode de valeurs et d'intensités
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  15. 15 No. 3. Neumes rythmiques 05:59
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 3. Neumes rythmiques
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  16. 16 No. 4. Île de feu II 04:55
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 4. Île de feu II
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi
  17. 17 La fauvette des jardins 28:12
    Track
    17
    Title
    La fauvette des jardins
    Duration
    28:12
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Ciro Longobardi