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Markus Bellheim His recording of all of Olivier Messiaen's piano compositions begins with a main work in which the elements important for further work interact in an exemplary manner: the Franciscan-influenced mysticism, synaesthesia, the love for the voices of nature and the sharpening of awareness of foreign musical cultures with their diverse melody and rhythm. Exotic colors dominate in the “gaze of the prophets, shepherds and wise men”, in the “gaze of the spirit of joy” the oriental origin of Gregorian chant becomes comprehensible. The “Vingt regards” were written in Paris in 1944, in the months leading up to the liberation of the city. They are a document of expectant contemporaneity, an expression of a restless era that was grasping life anew and was hungry for the future.
program:
Oliver Messiaen (1908-1992)
Twenty Views on the Child Jesus (1944)
SACD 1 71:26
[01] I. Regard du Pere 09:00
[02] II. Regard de l'étoile 03:05
[03] III. L'echange 03:44
[04] IV. Regard de la Vierge 06:26
[05] V. Regard du Fils sur le Fils 08:41
[06] VI. Par Lui tout a été fait 11:09
[07] VII. Regard de la Croix 05:25
[08] VIII. Regard des Hauteurs 02:47
[09] IX. Regard du Temps 03:32
[10] X. Regard de l'Esprit de joie 08:51
[11] XI. First communion de la Vierge 08:45
SACD 2 71:09
[01] XII. La parole toute-puissante 02:30
[02] XIII. Noël 04:40
[03] XIV. Regard des Anges 05:09
[04] XV. Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus 14:00
[05] XVI. Regard des prophetes, des bergers et des Mages 03:14
[06] XVIII. Regard you silence 05:51
[07] XVIII. Regard de l'Onction terrible 07:09
[08] XIX. Je dors, mais mon cœur veille 11:27
[09] XX. Regard de l'Église d'amour 17:08
Markus Bellheimpiano
Press:
04/2010
CD compressed
04/2010
LA LIBERTE
02/2010
01/2010
