MESSIAEN: Livre d'Orgue, Méditations, etc
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD
Categories: Instrumental Music
Composers: Olivier Messiaen
Performers: Jennifer Bate
Available: 3
Price: $14.95
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Organ Works
Jennifer Bate at the Organ of St. Pierre de Beauvais Cathedral
Messe de la Pentecôte
Livre d'Orgue
Neuf Mèditations sur le Mystére de la Sainte Trinité
Jennifer enjoys the unique reputation as a world authority on the French composer, Olivier Messiaen, and was his organist of choice.
In 1975, upon hearing Jennifer Bate perform a program of his works, Olivier Messiaen wrote the following recommendation about Jennifer Bate. "...is an excellent organist,
not only for her virtuosity, but also for her musicianship and sensitivity in choosing her timbres. She is a really accomplished musician who loves what she plays and knows how to make others love it too!" This marked the beginning of a close artistic association and friendship between the two.
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disc One (75:31) | |||
| Messe De La Pentecôte | |||
| 1 | i. Les Langues de feu (Entrée) | 2:58 | |
| 2 | ii. Les Choses visibles et invisibles (Offertoire) | 12:20 | |
| 3 | iii. Le don de la sagesse (Consecration) | 3:43 | |
| 4 | iv. Les oiseaux et les sources (Communion) | 5:43 | |
| 5 | v. Le vent de l'é spirit (Sortie) | 3:58 | |
| Livre d'Orgue | |||
| 6 | Reprises par interversion | 6:13 | |
| 7 | Trio (for Trinity Sunday) | 2:04 | |
| 8 | Les Mains de l'abime (for Time of Penitence) | 7:15 | |
| 9 | Chants d'oiseax / Birdsongs | 7:57 | |
| 10 | Trio (for Trinity Sunday) | 8:56 | |
| 11 | Les Yeux Dans les roues / The Eyes in the Wheels | 2:01 | |
| 12 | Soixante-quatre durées / sixty-four Durations | 11:39 | |
| Disc Two (78:19) | |||
| Mèditations sur le Mystére de la Sainte Trinité | |||
| 1 | Mèditation I | 8:41 | |
| 2 | Mèditation II | 11:57 | |
| 3 | Mèditation III | 2:38 | |
| 4 | Mèditation IV | 6:32 | |
| 5 | Mèditation V | 10:41 | |
| 6 | Mèditation VI | 8:04 | |
| 7 | Mèditation VII | 6:20 | |
| 8 | Mèditation VIII | 10:20 | |
| 9 | Mèditation IX | 12:14 |
(of Jennifer Bate) "She is a really accomplished musician, who loves to play, and knows how to make others love it too."
(Olivier Messiaen)
(of Meditations) "Even at a superficial glance the listener can enjoy the glories revealed by these deeply committed performances. The organ sound is fantastic...Jennifer Bate's assured and colourful playing makes first impressions that will turn listeners into pilgrims...wonderfully majestic."
(of Livre d'orgue) "involving a variety of Hindu rhythms and birdsong in extreme rhytmic complexity...with frequent silences and intricate detail, this, of all organ works, is the one most benefiting from the CD medium...Felix Aprahamian's wonderfully informative notes round off a first-class release."
Gramophone Publications Ltd.