MESSIAEN: Vignt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jesus 2CD

Catalog Number: RRC2055
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD

Available: 3
Price: $14.99

Categories: Instrumental Music
Budget Periods: Modern

Composers: Olivier Messiaen
Performers: Peter Hill

Olivier Messiaen(1908-1992)

Vignt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jesus

Peter Hill, piano

This magnificent set of twenty 'regards" (contemplations, aspects - the French word is virtually untranslatable), depicting a plurality of images inspired by the Christ-child, was composed in Paris between March and September 1944.

"Beautiful technique, atrue poet: I am a passionate admirer of Peter Hill's playing"
Olivier Messiaen (with whom Peter Hill prepared in Paris

	Track Listing	Time
	Disc One
1	Regard du Pere	8:58
2	Regard du l'etoile	3:12
3	L'exchange	3:34
4	Regard de la Vierge	6:05
5	Regard du Fils sur le Fils	8:33
6	Par Lui tout a ete fait	10:56
7	Regard de la Croix	4:33
8	Regard des hauteurs	2:41
9	Regard du Temps	3:07
10	Regard de l'Espirit de joie	9:42
11	Premiere communion de la Vierge	8:28

	Disc Two
1	La parole toute puissante	2:29
2	Noel	4:49
3	Regard des Anges	4:59
4	La baiser de l'Enfant-Jesus	13:07
5	Regard des prophetes, des bergers et des Mages	3:14
6	Regard du Silence	5:55
7	Regard de l'Onction terrible	7:44
8	Je dors, mais mon ceour veille	11:28
9	Regard de l'Eglise d'amour	16:29

"...what Hill does is allow the listener to come to the music, rather than bring the music to the listener. In this sense, his comparatively passive approach can be held up as a virtue, as can the literalness of his adherence to notated rhythm (especially in the birdsong) and to the metronome markings...What is more, the most complex movements are far more thoroughly prepared...while the lyrical effusions...have as inner calm and glow on their own...anyone who has enjoyed the earlier issues will be richly rewarded here too."
Gramophone Publications Ltd.