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    https://sophisticatedspectra.com/article/drosia-serenity-a-modern-oasis-in-the-heart-of-larnaca.2521391.html

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    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set

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    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set

    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set
    with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    New Philharmonia Orchestra; Hilversum Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
    J.S. Bach, William Byrd, Jeremiah Clarke, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Henri Duparc
    P.I. Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Elgar
    Cezar Franck, Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.85 Gb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 145-2 | Time: 06:14:01

    This fabulous five disc set is replete with some of those old Stokowski warhorses all recorded in absolutely mind boggling Phase 4 sound, overblown perhaps but astounding for its time. Decca's remastering is absolutely magnificent and the discs are jam packed with almost six hours of music. This is another fine memorial to a great conductor who remained astonishingly vital until the very end of his life.

    Alison Balsom, Quentin Thomas - Music for Trumpet and Organ (2002)

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    Alison Balsom, Quentin Thomas - Music for Trumpet and Organ (2002)

    Alison Balsom, Quentin Thomas - Music for Trumpet and Organ (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 219 Mb | Total time: 57:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: EMI Classics | 5 75683 2 | Recorded: 2002

    Balsom explains in her booklet note that EMI gave her considerable freedom in choosing her programme for the disc and thereby lays my only real reservation. The objective (a daunting one as Balsom readily admits) was to seek out new material although what we get is a slightly uncomfortable blend of one vast original composition in the Eben, that whilst well coupled with the shorter Tomasi work seems rather ill at ease with the likes of Shenandoah and George Thalben-Ball’s well-known organ Elegy. It may be that Balsom was conscious of not duplicating works with Håkan Hardenberger’s release of music for the same combination that appeared on BIS earlier this year (also reviewed by the writer) although in fact it is only the Tomasi that is common to both discs.

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada, Royal Concertgebouw, Riccardo Chailly - Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie (1993)

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    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada, Royal Concertgebouw, Riccardo Chailly - Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie (1993)

    Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie (1993)
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Takashi Harada, ondes martenot
    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 358 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans ~ 44 Mb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 436 626-2 | Time: 01:16:36

    Along with Wit's Naxos recording, this is one of the best versions of Messiaen's phantasmagoric Turangalîla-Symphonie available, and it's very different: swifter, more obviously virtuosic in concept, perhaps a touch less warm in consequence, and engineered with greater “in your face” immediacy. The playing of the Concertgebouw, always a wonderful Messiaen orchestra, is stunning throughout. Chailly revels in the music's weirdness. The Ondes Martinot, for example, is particularly well captured. It's interesting how earlier performances tended to minimize its presence, perhaps for fear that is would sound silly, which of course it does, redeemed by the composer's utter seriousness and obliviousness to anything that smacks of humor. In any case, it's not all noise and bluster. The Garden of Love's Sleep is gorgeous, hypnotic, but happily still flowing, while the three Turangalîla rhythmic studies have remarkable clarity. Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the solo piano part magnificently, really as well as anyone else ever has.

    Christina & Michelle Naughton - Visions: Olivier Messiaen, J.S. Bach, John Adams (2016)

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    Christina & Michelle Naughton - Visions: Olivier Messiaen, J.S. Bach, John Adams (2016)

    Christina & Michelle Naughton - Visions: Olivier Messiaen, J.S. Bach, John Adams (2016)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 201 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0825646011360 | Time: 01:01:36

    Their Warner Classics debut makes clear that Christina & Michelle Naughton show great imagination in their programming: Messiaen's mystical and epic Visions de l'Amen, composed during World War II, appears alongside John Adams' boisterous and percussive Hallelujah Junction, inspired by a truck stop on the border of Nevada and California. The CD is completed with J.S. Bach's serenely moving Gotttes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, in an arrangement by the contemporary Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag.

    Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set

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    Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set

    Europäische Chormusik - European Choral Music (2014) 6CD Box Set
    Eric Ericson, Rundfunkchor Stockholm, Stockholmer Kammerchor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.48 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 942 Mb | Scans included
    Classical, Choral | Label: Warner Classics | # 825646261505 | Time: 06:49:27

    The great recordings of the "Nordic choral marvel": Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson was one of the true legends in his field. When he died in 2013 at the age of 94, he had spent decades working to place his two Stockholm choirs among the international musical elite. His recordings from the 1970's enjoy real cult status – unique interpretations of a cappella works from the Renaissance to the 20th century, from Gesualdo to Penderecki, released here for the first time in a single box.

    Severin von Eckardstein - Vers la flamme: Beethoven, Messiaen, Scriabin, R. Strauss (2023)

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    Severin von Eckardstein - Vers la flamme: Beethoven, Messiaen, Scriabin, R. Strauss (2023)

    Severin von Eckardstein - Vers la flamme: Beethoven, Messiaen, Scriabin, R. Strauss (2023)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 76:08 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 855 3531 | Recorded: 2022

    The idea behind the thematic programming of this disc is a journey from the earthly to the light, it is about the question of how life and death are connected.

    Lars Vogt - The Complete Warner Classics Edition [27CDs] (2023)

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    Lars Vogt - The Complete Warner Classics Edition [27CDs] (2023)

    Lars Vogt - The Complete Warner Classics Edition [27CDs] (2023)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6,17 Gb | Total time: 31:23:58 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 5054197604904 | Recorded: 1991-2005

    Lars Vogt (1970-2022) early recordings collected here provide a document of an artist who always remained authentic, both to himself and to music. Lars Vogt never sought absolute truth, but truthfulness instead meant all the more to him. The man and the artist were always very close, never currying favour and never detached from the world. He was, instead, open and natural. / "It's incredibly gratifying when you notice that you can perhaps light a little spark, a little flame for music in people, and when music helps you to find the path to your own soul."

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

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    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set
    Debussy, Ravel, Boulez, Berg, Ives, Messiaen, Ligeti, Carter, Beethoven, Liszt

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.2 Gb | Scans included | Time: 07:03:59
    Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 66044-8

    Released between 1991 and 2005, the selections in The Warner Recordings encapsulate the period when Pierre-Laurent Aimard was signed to Erato and Teldec, performing mostly 20th-century fare and some music from the 19th century. Aimard is famous for his contributions to the modernist catalog, and his performances of works by Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, György Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen are regarded as scrupulously executed and authoritatively interpreted. Aimard also recorded early 20th century pieces by Charles Ives, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy, as well as Romantic masterpieces of Beethoven and Liszt. A pianist's pianist, Aimard is well-rounded in his repertoire and a true master of keyboard technique, yet he has received considerably less fanfare than many of his flashier colleagues. Yet connoisseurs of piano recordings know that Aimard is indispensible, especially for his special feeling for French music, and his recordings are important documents that serious students and newcomers should appreciate.

    Alberto Rosado - Musica Ricercata: Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage (2001)

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    Alberto Rosado - Musica Ricercata: Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage (2001)

    Alberto Rosado - Musica Ricercata (2001)
    works by György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 219 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Verso | # VRS 2006 | Time: 01:17:06

    Alberto Rosado showcases some of the most significant modern composers in this well-considered programme. Inevitably he’s up against fierce competition, not least Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recordings of both Ligeti’s Ricercata (included on the disc which received Gramophone’s Contemporary Award in 1997) and the complete Vingt Regards.

    Jaana Kärkkäinen - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2007)

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    Jaana Kärkkäinen - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2007)

    Jaana Kärkkäinen - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2007)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 450 Mb | Total time: 65:28+64:57 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 226:1-2 | Recorded: 2005

    "You love us, sweet Jesus: that we had forgotten," wrote Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) in the preface to "Offrandes oublieés" of 1930. Much of religiOUS art, with its artificially circumscribed expression and stylised piety, has contributed to this tendency to forget, and it was something Messiaen also fought against in his organ suite "La Nativité du Seigneur" of 1935. While a prisonelcof-war in 1941, during the Second World Wal; Messiaen wrote his "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" at Stalag VIII in Silesia.

    Håkon Austbø - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1994)

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    Håkon Austbø - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1994)

    Håkon Austbø - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1994)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 363 Mb | Total time: 132:43 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.550829-30 | Recorded: 1993

    Håkan Austbø has excellent credentials in this repertoire. His is an individual view, with a wider range of tempi and dynamic than Loriod. His account of the opening Regard du père and the later Regard du fils sur le fils is paced much more slowly, but his playing has great concentration and evocative feeling so that he readily carries the slower tempo, and in Par lui tout a été fait articulation is bolder, giving the music a stronger profile, helped by the clearer, Naxos digital focus. This is undoubtedly a performance that grips the listener and can be strongly recommended as an alternative view.

    Kagan, Brunner, Gutman, Lobanov - Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet & piano; Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (2014)

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    Kagan, Brunner, Gutman, Lobanov - Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet & piano; Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (2014)

    Alban Berg: Four Pieces for clarinet & piano; Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (2014)
    Oleg Kagan, violin; Eduard Brunner, clarinet; Natalia Gutman, cello; Vasily Lobanov, piano

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 130 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | # MEL CD 10 02310 | Time: 00:55:33

    Firma Melodiya presents a recording of chamber works by Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen. Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1913) were created by Alban Berg, one of the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of the Second Viennese School, in a period of an intense creative ascent, a year before he began to work on his opera Wozzeck. Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is arguably one of the most amazing pages of chamber music of the 20th century. It was composed during the composer’s stay in German prisoner-of-war camp where it was premiered in January of 1941.

    Sean Shibe - Lost & Found (2022)

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    Sean Shibe - Lost & Found (2022)

    Sean Shibe - Lost & Found (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 204 Mb | Total time: 70:01 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186 988 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

    Sean Shibe's second PENTATONE album Lost & Found is an ecstatic journey containing music by outsiders, mystics, visionaries, who often have more than one identity and lay claim to various artistic traditions, genres, or audiences. The repertoire ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to Olivier Messiaen, Moondog, Julius Eastman, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Meredith Monk, Shiva Feshareki, Oliver Leith and Daniel Kidane. Stretching ten centuries, these pieces are bound together by Shibe's unique electric guitar sound and aesthetic. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. He continues his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE after his well-received label debut Camino (2021).

    Bertrand Chamayou - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2022)

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    Bertrand Chamayou - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2022)

    Bertrand Chamayou - Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 448 Mb | Total time: 02:21:57 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190296196669 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

    "A giant fresco, a kind of odyssey," is Bertrand Chamayou's description of Olivier Messiaen's piano masterwork, Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus. Written in 1944, it is a monumental, mystical and iridescent sequence of 20 gazes or contemplations on the infant Jesus. Messiaen once wrote that "The drama of my life is that I have written religious music for an audience that has no faith." Bertrand Chamayou feels that the Vingt Regards "is a mystical rather than a religious experience… It arouses the same kind of awe as walking into a magnificent cathedral or seeing a glorious sunset. You feel that time stops." Chamayou first played the work in 2008, Messiaen's centenary year, but it has been part of his life since he was nine years old.

    Gloria Cheng, Calder Quartet - Olivier Messiaen, Kaija Saariaho: The Edge Of Light (2012)

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    Gloria Cheng, Calder Quartet - Olivier Messiaen, Kaija Saariaho: The Edge Of Light (2012)

    Olivier Messiaen, Kaija Saariaho - The Edge Of Light (2012)
    Gloria Cheng (piano), Calder Quartet

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 209 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 166 Mb | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907578 | Time: 01:07:02

    Grammy® Award-winner Gloria Cheng brings an exquisite array of touch to this programme which couples the first mature works of Olivier Messiaen with the darkly radiant music of Kaija Saariaho. The Calder Quartet joins Ms. Cheng for Saariaho's 2003 trio 'Je sens un deuxième coeur' and Messiaen's 'Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes'. Saariaho attended this first recording of her ‘Ballade’ and ‘Prelude’.