
Frank Martin’s Mass, completed in 1926, premiered in 1963, and […]
One wouldn’t immediately link Franz Liszt and Olivier Messaien, yet both composers celebrate virtuosity and sonority in equal doses, while their sound worlds coexist to
Along with Wit’s Naxos recording, this is one of the
There is no shortage of fine performances of this symphony
Magnificent! Antoni Wit’s new recording of Messiaen’s phantasmagoric Turangalila Symphony
Kent Nagano may know his Messiaen, but the Berlin Philharmonic
Messiaen’s tone poems Le tombeau resplendissant and Hymne are early works (1931-32), save for the fact that the score of the latter was lost and
If you want all of Messiaen’s orchestral and vocal-orchestral music
In a recent lecture, Liszt biographer Alan Walker explained how Liszt essentially invented the piano recital, with the idea that a program should have a
What a great idea to pair two major 20th-century French two-piano works, both composed in wartime. More importantly, Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal prove an