Messiaen - The Organ Works
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Label: Treasure Island Music
Cat No: UKCD600
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 6
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th September 2014
Contents
Works
Apparition de l'eglise eternelleDiptyque
L'Ascension (organ)
La Nativite du Seigneur
Le Banquet celeste
Les Corps glorieux
Livre d'orgue
Livre du Saint-Sacrament
Meditations (9) sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite
Messe de la Pentecote
Verset pour la fete de la dedicace
Artists
Jennifer Bate (organ)Works
Apparition de l'eglise eternelleDiptyque
L'Ascension (organ)
La Nativite du Seigneur
Le Banquet celeste
Les Corps glorieux
Livre d'orgue
Livre du Saint-Sacrament
Meditations (9) sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite
Messe de la Pentecote
Verset pour la fete de la dedicace
Artists
Jennifer Bate (organ)About
Jennifer Bate enjoys a unique reputation as a world authority on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, and was his organist of choice. The label Unicorn-Kanchana recorded the complete organ works between 1979 and 1981, appearing subsequently on CD. Each volume was heard by Messiaen prior to its final editing - he endorsed every one with enormous enthusiasm. All won international acclaim. Her world première recording of his last masterpiece for organ, 'Livre du Saint Sacrement', had exceptional international success, winning a Grand Prix du Disque.
Treasure Island are to be commended on the reissue of these classic recordings on the occasion of her 70th birthday - they are re-releasing all of Jennifer’s Unicorn and Unicorn-Kanchana recordings.
"I turned to look at Messiaen at the end of my first piece to judge his reaction. He looked like thunder and came up to me very slowly and asked whether I owned his recordings. I was ashamed to say that I didn’t... To my amazement, he burst into laughter and said, ‘But you have played that exactly the way I play it on my recording, and only Olivier Messiaen plays like that!’
Messiaen asked for my scores in order to make a dedication and also wrote the most wonderful endorsement of my playing. In 1979, this was quoted in an article about my recordings in Gramophone and John Goldsmith of Unicorn Records immediately offered me the opportunity to record his complete works..." - Jennifer Bate
Contents:
CD 1: La Nativité du Seigneur, Le Banquet Céleste, Apparition de l’Église éternelle [rec. 1979]
CD 2: L’Ascension, Les Corps Glorieux [rec. 1979-80]
CD 3: Messe de la Pentecôte, Livre d’Orgue [rec. 1980-1]
CD 4: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité [rec. 1980-1]
CD 5: Diptyque, Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace [rec. 1980-1], Livre du Saint Sacrement (1–8)
CD 6: Livre du Saint Sacrement (9-18) [rec. 1987]
Played on the Grandes Orgues de la Cathédrale Saint Pierre, Beauvais and the Grandes Orgues de l’Église de la Sainte Trinité, Paris.
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