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Messiaen Organ Works (2CD)
Artist: 
Simon Preston

    Messiaen Organ Works (2CD)

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    Product Code: 0028948249176

    Simon Preston’s complete recordings of Messiaen for Argo and Decca, newly remastered and compiled for the first time in a 2CD release.

    Preston championed Messiaen’s organ works both in recital and on disc, at a time when they were relatively unknown in England. Incredibly, he made his first Messiaen recording – of "L’Ascension" – at only a week’s notice, in August 1962. The venue was the great vaulted chapel of King’s College, Cambridge where he had been organ scholar for the best part of five years under the tuition of C.H. Trevor. Three years later, there followed what is now the most popular of the composer’s organ cycles, "La Nativité du Seigneur," recorded in Westminster Abbey where he was by now sub-organist: still an astonishingly precocious achievement.

    Tracklist

    OLIVIER MESSIAEN
    Le Banquet céleste
    La Nativité du Seigneur
    L’Ascension
    Les Corps glorieux

    ARTISTS
    Simon Preston, organ
    Organ of the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge (L’Ascension)
    Organ of Westminster Abbey (La Nativité du Seigneur)
    Organ of St. Albans Cathedral (Le Banquet céleste, Les Corps glorieux)