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Messiaen / Krauze - Chamber Works | Warner 2564683932

Messiaen / Krauze - Chamber Works

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564683932

Barcode: 0825646839322

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 10th May 2010

Contents

Artists

Joanna MacGregor (piano)
Charlotte Riedijk (soprano)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
David Campbell (clarinet)

Works

Krauze, Zygmunt

Quatuor Pour La Naissance

Messiaen, Olivier

Harawi: Chants d'amour et de mort
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus

Artists

Joanna MacGregor (piano)
Charlotte Riedijk (soprano)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
David Campbell (clarinet)

About

The three Messiaen works included in this set were written between 1940 and 1945. Messiaen was in his thirties, a period when, looking back, he thought he was most gifted. He now had in place all the elements of his own highly distinctive musical language based on seven scales, his “modes of limited transposition”. For him all sounds were colour.

This, combined with his Catholic faith, which he never doubted, produced what he described as a “theological rainbow”, his ideal music being the aural equivalent of the dazzling blaze of colour created by sunlight streaming through a stained-glass window. And although these pieces use birdsong, it wasn’t yet the overriding influence it was to become in his more fragmented pieces of the 1950s.

Contents:
CD 1 [65.03]
- Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
- Krauze: Quatuor pour la Naissance
Madeleine Mitchell, violin / David Campbell, clarinet / Christopher van Kampen, cello / Joanna MacGregor, piano

CD 2/3 [56.43/71.25]
- Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus, for piano
Joanna MacGregor, piano

CD 4 [51.35]
- Messiaen: Harawi, Chant d’amour et de mort (1st Time on CD)
Charlotte Riedijk, soprano / Joanna MacGregor, piano

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