Olivier Messiaen

Chamber Works

James Clark / Philippe Honoré / Rachel Roberts / David Cohen / Kenneth Smith / Barnaby Robson

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212012628

Catalog number: SIGCD 126
Releasedate: 01-06-08

http://www.signumrecords.com/products/booklets/SIGCD126booklet.pdf

British pianist Matthew Schellhorn is joined by the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra in this recording of Olivier Messiaen's chamber works, including the eight-movement masterpiece Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, written while the composer was a prisoner of war and premiered in 1941 at the Stalag VIIIA camp in Silesia. Marking one hundred years since the birth of the composer, the disc also includes the newly published Fantaisie for violin and piano (discovered after the composer's death) and the world première recording of a beautiful miniature for solo piano. Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen wrote of Schellhorn, “An excellent pianist and an excellent exponent...everything is played as Messiaen wished it.”

Fantaisie