Oliver messiean

[felia]

Dear Friend,
Help!does anyone know about Messiean piano works??i would like to know some of it. ;DPlease suggest some webpage as a guideline to know his piano works. Thanks you

[cziffra777]

Dear Friend,
Help!does anyone know about Messiean piano works??i would like to know some of it. ;DPlease suggest some webpage as a guideline to know his piano works. Thanks you

I wrote a research paper on his "Quartet for the End of Time" and used this book in my research: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521585384/qid=1095434414/sr=ka-2/ref=pd_ka_2/104-6960537-5507122

While the quartet isn't a piano work, the book does have a lot of information on Messiaen's style.  Unfortunately, most of the other books about Messiaen seem to be out of print and I don't know of any books on just the piano music.

[aki]

I remember from the history course, he likes to write about birds.

[Max]

I'm learning about his 'modes of limited transposition'..the octatonic is quite cool.

[bernhard]

Naxos has now recorded all of Messiaen piano works (played by Haakon Autsbo ) However the definitive recording is arguably by Peter Hill (who had the composer’s blessings). You can read a review here (as well as information about the pieces):

https://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,786407,00.html

You can read about his life and most important works here:

https://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=messiaen

A complete list of Messiaen’s works can be found here:

https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~pradyut/messiaen/

And if you google “Messsiaen piano works” you should get over 30 000 entries . This should keep you busy for a while!

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[felia]

thanks guys,
i got some of the sample on Amazon.com.Is really not my taste.But anyway, if my tutor really ask me to play....I think i have to know Messiean thoery on composing better in order to play it..

[thomas_williams]

I've never played anything by Messiean (by the way, his first name is Olivier, not Oliver), but I love what I have heard of his music-- especially the Turangalila-Symphonie -- a concerto-like work for piano and orchestra lasting an hour and 20 minutes.  I've also heard Quartet for the end of Time and some of his organ works.