La Fauvette Passerinette: A Messiaen Premiere with birds, landscapes and homages
DCD34141
DDD
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 78'56"
Tracks: 16
Booklet pages: 16
© 2014 Delphian Records Ltd
Sent to a reviewer on 29 June 2015
Listen: Messiaen: La Fauvette Passerinette (track 13, 0:01-0:59)
Peter Hill, piano (2012 Steinway D)
Prelude
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
1 Oiseaux tristes (No 2 from Miroirs, 1904-5)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
2 La Colombe (No 1 from Huit Préludes, 1928-9)
3 Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935)
Étude
Olivier Messiaen:
4 Île de feu 1 (No 1 from Quatre Études de Rythme (1949-50)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007):
5 Klavierstück VII (1954)
6 Klavierstück VIII (1954)
Julian Anderson (born 1967):
7 Etude No 1 (Etudes for piano, 1995-)
George Benjamin (born 1960):
8 Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm (No 1 from Three Studies for solo piano, 1982-5)
Birds and Landscapes
Olivier Messiaen:
9 Le Traquet stapazin (No 4 Book 2 from Catalogue d'oiseaux, 1956-8)
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013):
10 D'ombre et de silence (No 1 from Trois Préludes, 1973-88)
Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014):
11 Stars (Night Pieces, 1972-3)
Douglas Young (born 1947):
12 River (Dreamlandscapes Book2, 1977-85)
Olivier Messiaen:
13 La Fauvette passerinette (1961) (first recording)
Memorial
Tristan Murail (born 1947):
14 Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire ... (in memoriam Olivier Messiaen, 1992)
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996):
15 Rain Tree Sketch II (1992)
Postlude
Olivier Messiaen:
16 Morceau de lecture à vue (1934)
Recorded 23 March and 6 April 2014 in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, UK
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