
This new recording of Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles… makes a very impressive case for a colorful and ambitious work, and is even more successful
Olivier Messiaen remains one of the luckiest composers on discs. His works are all widely performed and recorded by dedicated artists prepared to do them
Although not well known to CD buyers, Yves Prin (b. 1933) is a much respected name in the field of French contemporary music, both as
As 19th-century masses go, this is one of the more user friendly. This is so by virtue of its many fine qualities, not least of
Kaddish is generally considered the ugly duckling among Leonard Bernstein’s three symphonies. The composer clothes the Jewish prayer for the dead with an ambitious tarp