Ciro Longobardi -Messiaen:catalogue Doiseaux -Piano Classics CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Disc 01
Catalogue des Oiseaux (13 Stücke für Klavier)

01. "Nr. 1 Le Chocard des Alpes"

02. "Nr. 2 Le Loriot"

03. "Nr. 3 Le Merle bleu"

04. "Nr. 4 Le Traquet Stapazin"

05. "Nr. 5 La Chouette Hulotte"

06. "Nr. 6 L'Alouette Lulu"

Disc 02

01. "Nr. 7 La Rousserolle Effarvatte"

02. "Nr. 8 L'Alouette Calandrelle"

03. "Nr. 9 La Bouscarle"

Disc 03

01. "Nr. 10 Le Merle de roche"

02. "Nr. 11 La Buse variable"

03. "Nr. 12 Le Traquet rieur"

04. "Nr. 13 Le Courlis cendr?"

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Ciro Longobardi

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French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was fascinated by birds and birdsong. On special expeditions he collected and notated the songs of birds in their natural habitat. Between 1956 and 1958 he incorporated his material in his cycle Catalogue dâ??Oiseaux, 13 pieces for piano solo. Each piece is written in honour of a French province. It bears the title of the bird-type of the region, and depicts the complete surroundings of the bird in question, the general atmosphere, the colours, the sounds, the temperature and the perfumes. Each piece is thus an evocation of the bird in its habitat. Messiaenâ??s piano writing is highly original, not only in the imitation of the bird song but also in creating the atmospheres and the interaction between the two. In this sense the music transcends the picturesque and becomes a true work of art. Initially the extreme pianistic demands could only be met by Messiaenâ??s wife, pianist Yvonne Loriod, first performer and also dedicatee of the work. Italian pianist Ciro Longobardi is a specialist in 20th century music, winner of the Gaudeamus Competition, and frequent guest at Contemporary Music Festivals. - CIRO LONGOBARDI

The Catalogue d'Oiseaux of Olivier Messiaen forms an extraordinary and varied tribute to the landscape and bird-life of France, and to it's composer's powers of invention as he explored and developed innovations in harmony, melody and rhythm at a time when all the elements of music were in flux and up for grabs. The 13 compositions of the Catalogue are very different from one other, in length, form and intent. L'alouette lulu is a kind of antiphonal poem. La chouette hulotte boldly maps out territory for experimentation. Le chocard des alpes and Le buse variable are mostly articulated by shouts, where we are close to noise. The material is often raw and dissonant, but Messiaen often uses what are traditionally blocks of dissonance to create consonance. There are pieces full of melody - Le loriot or La bouscarle - and songs rich in timbre but not saturated with color like La merle de roche. He liked to convey the impression that he composed music in isolation from the world around him, inspired first and foremost by God and by the birds whom he called God's musicians. The Italian pianist Ciro Longobardi has made a specialty of 20th and 21st-century music. He won a major piano prize at the crucible of European modernism in music, Darmstadt - only the second Italian pianist to do so - and he has given Italian premieres of significant works by the likes of Ives, Kurtág and Xenakis. With both an assured technique and a sympathetic grasp of the idioms of the great music of our own time, he is well placed to make an outstanding contribution to the rich history of the Catalogue d'Oiseaux on record.

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1010155PCL

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