Since you are interested in Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen and other piano music, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Piano Music Angela Hewitt, piano [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] 'Playing of the highest polish. Fastidiously balanced chords, every detail clear and clean. Rarely, if ever, can Messiaen's piano music have been played with such refinement' - Classic CD |
MESSIAEN / DEBUSSY / GOLIJOV / FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Voices Of Light Dawn Upshaw (soprano) with Gilbert Kalish (piano) [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 23/Aug/2004 ] "A typically adventurous exploration of purity and sensuality in French song." Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (Feb 2005) ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (Feb 05) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Solo Piano music [2 CDs] Steven Osborne, piano [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "[Gaspard] is technically immaculate...and gently seductive before turning on a more sinister pressure...Osborne spins his dancers towards a visceral and devastating oblivion." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Instrumental) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes Steven Osborne (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Instrumental - 'Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure' (BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice) |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BUSONI / JANACEK / MESSIAEN / PROKOFIEV / etc
Violin Sonatas Gidon Kremer (violin) with Martha Argerich, Valery Afanassiev and Oleg Maisenberg [ DG Collector's Edition / 8 CD - released 9/Oct/2003 ] The present set includes the complete Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas, as well as the two well-known Schumann Sonatas, plus Sonatas by Richard Strauss, Busoni, Bartok, Janacek, Prokofiev, and Messiaen's Theme and Variations - restoring many recordings... |