Pi-Hsien Chen - Vingt Regards Sur L EnfantOlivier Messiaen's two hour, 20 movement piano solo cycle on the Observations of the Child Jesus was written in 1944 after the 'Quatuor pour la fin tu temps' and the 'Visions de l'Amen' for 2 pianos and has established itself as one of the most significant piano works of the 20th century. Great pianists such as Anton Batagov and Martin Helmchen have documented outstanding performances of this extremely versatile cycle of musical offerings on

there is much in the way of melodic tunefulness and concertato style - for both voices and instruments - to combine with fugal-imitative writing reminiscent of the stile antico

A little more familiar is the grave Meditation on the Hymn to St Wenceslas by Dvorák's student and son-in-law

CD1 contains a new remaster of the original album

whatever length of time that might be

but not one that's much too sad to write

The tonal language of Beethoven's Mass in C major

But beyond the legendary figure mobilized and remodeled through the ages according to political needs

Roche and described in a 12-page French and English booklet

"he had such insight into what it means to be human and had to get that out in his music

Hans Christian Andersen And Most Happy Fella / Original Cast

While moving to California and becoming very entrenched with his new surroundings

Kinds of Love