MESSIAEN: The Organ Works 6CD Box Set

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): The Organ Works

Jennifer Bate, organist

6 CD box set, 44 page booklet including updated notes. The compilation set comprises of four previously released REGIS recordings (RRC1086, RRC1087, RR2051, RRC2052) all available at Premiere Music Distributors.

Including (amongst many): La Nativité du Seigneur, Livre d'Orgue, Livre du Saint Sacrement, Les Neuf Méditations

C'est vraiment parfait!" said Messiaen after hearing Jennifer Bate's recording of La Nativité du Seigneur, one of his most extended, most moving and most beautiful works. The recording of the Beauvais Cathedral organ is of demonstratation quality."

(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 Méditations) "...deeply committed performances. The organ sound is fantastic...colourful playing makes first impressions that will turn listeners into pilgrims...wonderfully majestic."
Gramaphone Publications Ltd.

(of Nativité)"One of his most extended, moving and beautiful works...The recording on the Beauvais organ is demonstration quality."
Penguin Guide ROSETTE award

(of Saint Sacrement)What a sound!...a quite spectacular recording (which) carries the Composer's imprimatur... Bate makes an impressive and compelling case for these hypnotic pieces..."
Penguin Guide 1999 (3 Stars) Top Recommendation

(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.

"Apparition, where the eternal church really does appear out of the clouds, the vision is truly awesome."
Gramophone Publishing Ltd