Olivier Messiaen: The Complete Organ Music, Vol. 6 [Import]

Olivier Messiaen (Composer), Recorded Sound (Composer), Hans-Ola Ericsson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Hans-Ola Ericsson
• Composer: Olivier Messiaen, Recorded Sound
• Audio CD (March 25, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0000016GP
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 1. Adoro te

2. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 2. La Source de Vie

3. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 3. Le Dieu caché

4. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 4. Acte de Foi

5. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 5. Puer natus est nobis

6. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 6. La manne et le Pain de Vie

7. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 7. Les ressuscités et la lumière de Vie

8. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 8. Institution de l'Eucharistie

9. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 9. Les ténèbres

10. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 10. La Résurrection du Christ

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 12. La Transsubstantion

2. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 13. Les deux murailles d'eau

3. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 14. Prière avant la communion

4. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 15. La joie de la grâce

5. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 16. Prière après la communion

6. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 17. La Présence multipliée

7. Livre du Saint-Sacrement, for organ, I/53: 18. Offrande et Alleluia final

8. Birdsong: European Birds: Turdus merula (Blackbird)

9. Birdsong: European Birds: Luscinia megarhynchos (Nightingale)

10. Birdsong: European Birds: Turdus philomelos (Song thrush)

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware..., January 14, 2005

By 

Clark Battle (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olivier Messiaen: The Complete Organ Music, Vol. 6 (Audio CD)

This is dense. Very very dense. I like to listen to it with the lights low at night on a very powerful stereo. To hell with the neighbors.

Beware the 10th movement "The resurection of Christ". Messaien loves to prolong the resolution of dissonance into consonance. He does so with EXTREME mastery on this movement. He builds the anticipation to such a high degree that by the end of this movement you will be dizzy and salivating, begging him to release you... and he wont... until... the magnificent, almost orgasmic final chord. I have personally passed out after listening to this piece due to hyper-ventillation! It is the most beautiful thing Ive ever heard since Barber's Adagio for Strings.

This is not for the uninitiated. Do not play it for your girlfriend, that is unless she likes dense and intense music. In which case watch out cause I may steal her from you. If you are a girl... how YOU doin'? (wink wink :)