Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
    • PERFORMER
      Martin Helmchen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 15, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014194238
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA423
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Regard du Père

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    2. II. Regard de l'étoile

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    3. III. L'échange

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    4. IV. Regard de la Vierge

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    5. V. Regard du Fils sur le Fils

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    6. VI. Par Lui tout a été fait

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    7. VII. Regard de la Croix

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    8. VIII. Regard des hauteurs

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    9. IX. Regard du temps

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    10. X. Regard de l'Esprit de joie

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    11. XI. Première communion de la Vierge

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    12. XII. La parole toute puissante

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    13. XIII. Noël

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    14. XIV. Regard des Anges

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    15. XV. Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    16. XVI. Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    17. XVII. Regard du silence

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    18. XVIII. Regard de l'Onction terrible

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    19. XIX. Je dors, mais mon cœur veille

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    20. XX. Regard de l'Église d'amour

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Martin Helmchen


Composed in 1944 and first performed at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on 26 March 1945 by Yvonne Loriod, this is the second great pianistic cycle by Olivier Messiaen: a major work indeed, not only in the composer's oeuvre but in the entire repertoire for solo piano. As we know, it's origin is in the faith and spirituality of Olivier Messiaen, who described it as: 'The Contemplation of the Child-God in the cradle, and the gazes fixed upon Him: from the inexpressible Gaze of God the Father to the multiple Gaze of the Church of love, also taking in the unheard Gaze of the Spirit of joy, the tender Gaze of the Virgin, of the Angels, of the Magi, and of those creatures that are immaterial or symbolic (Time, Extreme Height, Silence, the Star, the Cross).' He continues: 'It is a complex of sounds destined for perpetual variations, pre-existing in the abstract as a series, but very concrete and easy to recognize by their colours: a steely grey-blue traversed by bright red and orange, a mauve-tinted violet spotted with leather-brown and encircled in deep purple.' The vision of this work transmitted by Martin Helmchen - a great piano virtuoso who is himself marked by a strong sense of spirituality - is another substantial contribution to the Messiaenic monument.