Håkon Austbø - Messiaen: Preludes / 4 Rhythmic Studies / Canteyodjaya (1999)

Tracklist

01. Preludes: La colombe (The Dove)
02. Preludes: Chan d'extase dans une paysage triste (Song of Ecstasy in a Sad Landscape)
03. Preludes: Le nombre leger (The Light Number)
04. Preludes: Instants defunts (Dead Instants)
05. Preludes: Les sons impalpables du reve (The Impalpable Sounds of the Dream)
06. Preludes: Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu (Bells of Anguish and Tears of Farewell)
07. Preludes: Plainte calme (Calm Plaint)
08. Preludes: Un reflect dans le vent (A Reflection in the Wind)
09. 4 Etudes de rythme: Ile de feu I (Isle of Fire I)
10. 4 Etudes de rythme: Mode de valeurs et d'intensites (Mode of Durations and Intensities)
11. 4 Etudes de rythme: Neumes rhythmiques (Rhythmic Neumes)
12. 4 Etudes de rythme: Ile de feu II (Isle of Fire II)
13. Canteyodjaya



Hakon Austbo's third volume of Messiaen's Piano Music offers gorgeous sounds in the composer's early, post-Debussyan set of Preludes, plus the wirier exoticism of the four Rhythmic Studies inspired by Papuan native culture and Canteyodjaya-the title of which comes from Indian Karnatic theory of rhythm. Austbo's expertise ideally captures the verve and sweep of Canteyodjaya in particular.

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