Olivier Messiaen joue ses Quatre Études de rythme / plays his Four Rhythmic Studies

Olivier Messiaen joue ses Quatre études rythmiques pour piano, écrites de 1949 à 1950.
Olivier Messiaen plays his Four Rhythmic Studies for piano, written from 1949 to 1950.
Original mono audio (1951).

0:00 - I. Île de feu I
1:57 - II. Mode de valeurs et d'intensités
5:53 - III. Neumes rythmiques
11:03 - IV. Île de feu II

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Olivier Messiaen: Quatre Études de rythme. Olivier Messiaen, piano. Sound Recording 2 discs, 78rpm, 30 cm. Columbia LFX 998/9 (CLX 2843; CLX 2844; CLX 2845; CLX 2846) [France]: Columbia, 1951. Same recording reissued in: Les rarissimes de Olivier Messiaen. CD 1: Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine; Les offrandes oubliées; Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus; Trois préludes; CD 2: Visions de l'amen pour deux pianos; Quatre Études de rythme. Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, piano; Jeanne Loriod, ondes Martenot; Ensemble Vocal Marcel Couraud; Orchestre de Chambre André Girard; Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Pierné; Marcel Couraud and Roger Désormière, conds. Recorded: Paris, Théâtre Apollo und Studio Albert, between 1942 and 1954. Audio restoration by EMI Music France. Compact disc, 2 sound discs: monaural, 12 cm. EMI Classics 0946 385275 2 7. [France]: EMI Music France, 2007.

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We don’t often think of Messiaen as a pianist due to his loving and talented wife who recorded his piano works for him, but Messiaen’s playing is rather beautiful and a great insight into his composition here.

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The moment which made me to make my monitor turn upside down and tried to put an another like







*inspired from someone, not really mine*