La vallée des cloches
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Composer or Director: Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, Maurice Ravel
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: ECM New Series
Magazine Review Date: 01/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 60
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 481 0426
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(La) Fauvette des jardins |
Olivier Messiaen, Composer
Momo Kodama, Piano Olivier Messiaen, Composer |
Miroirs |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Maurice Ravel, Composer Momo Kodama, Piano |
Rain tree sketch |
Toru Takemitsu, Composer
Momo Kodama, Piano Toru Takemitsu, Composer |
Author: Jed Distler
Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch stands out for Kodama’s beautiful internal balances and melodic awareness. The pianist fares best in the lengthy Messiaen work. Despite an overly close-up recording, Kodama clearly and intelligently scales the composer’s wide palette of constantly shifting dynamics, while bringing a degree of crispness and definition to the rapid, chattering passagework that surpasses even Peter Hill’s cultured, meticulous rendition (Unicorn – nla), and radically differs from Anatol Ugorski’s headlong, Lisztian flourishes. Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich’s booklet-notes combine useful musical background information and pompous philosophising.
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