Messiaen Des Canyons aux Étoiles
“As to soloists, Steven Osborne outshines pretty much all his rivals, not least in the ricocheting gestures of ‘The White-Browed Robin’ and judiciously applied rhetoric of ‘The Mockingbird’, while his cadenzas elsewhere can hardly be faulted for their subtlety or precision.”
Gramophone
”It helps enormously to have as pianist who brings the sensibility of a world class Debussy player to the Messiaen piano part finding the colour and nuance of the French tradition where other pianists emphasise a much more abrasive modernism. Not content to just get round the many notes, his rendition of the part is full of play, wit and even on occasions a sense of the absurd. More than anything it is thrillingly virtuosic with pianist and orchestra pushing each other to ever greater feats.”
MusicWeb International
SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LUDOVIC MORLOT-CONDUCTOR
JEFFREY FAIR-HORN
Tracklisting
Des canyons aux étoiles
Le désert
Les orioles
Ce qui est écrit sur les étoiles
Le Cossyphe d’Heuglin
Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte
Appel interstellaire
Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange
Les Ressuscités et le chant de l’étoile Aldebaran
Le Moqueur polyglotte
La Grive des bois
Omao, leiothrix, elepaio, shama
Zion Park et la cité céleste