034571173511

Vingt Regards Sur L'enfan

O. Messiaen

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CDA67351-2

Release Date:  01 September 2002

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  034571173511

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

  • Description

    Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus is one of the most grandly conceived works in the piano literature. It was composed in 1944 in Paris, during terribly troubled times. Although it met with a mixed critical reception, the Vingt Regards are now recognized as one of the most important piano works of the twentieth century.
    Steven Osborne is the ideal interpreter of this deeply religious, joyfully ecstatic music. He has played the complete Vingt Regards many times in concert, and after one performance at London's Wigmore Hall, The Independent wrote: "No pianist, surely, can have done it more justice … Osborne had a wonderful sense of sweep and colour [and] had his listeners rapt for no less than two hours and 10 minutes without an interval. Even unbelievers might have felt like falling to their knees".
    Combining virtuoso aplomb with a deep spiritual understanding, we believe that this recording captures the atmosphere of this great music more than any other. Osborne's Messiaen is an overwhelming and intensely fulfilling musical experience—one not to be missed.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. I. Regard Du Pere
      • 2. II. Regard De L'Etoile
      • 3. III. L'Echange
      • 4. IV. Regard De La Vierge
      • 5. V. Regard Du Fils Sur Le Fils
      • 6. VI. Par Lui Tout A Ete Fait
      • 7. VII. Regard De La Croix
      • 8. VIII. Regard Des Hauteurs
      • 9. IX. Regard Du Temps
      • 10. X. Regard De L'Esprit De Joie

      Disc 2

      • 1. XI. Premiere Communion De La Vierge
      • 2. XII. La Parole Toute Puissante
      • 3. XIII. Noel
      • 4. XIV. Regard Des Anges
      • 5. XV. Le Baiser De L'Enfant-Jesus
      • 6. XVI. Regards Des Prophetes, Des Bergers Et Des Mages
      • 7. XVII. Regard Du Silence
      • 8. XVIII. Regard De L'Onction Terrible
      • 9. XIX. Je Dors, Mais Mon Coeur Veille
      • 10. XX. Regard De L'Eglise D'Amour