Composer: Julian Anderson, Claude Achille Debussy, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Sadie Harrison, Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen
Performer: Roderick Chadwick
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Divine Art
Catalogue: DDA21240
Release: 2023
Size: 1.38 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Messiaen: Le traquet stapazin (Black-eared Wheatear)
01. Le Traquet Stapazin
Harrison: Lunae – Four Nocturnes
02. I. Around and a round…
03. II. Love is the Silence in Which I Remember You and Repeat You
04. III. Of Stars and Nightingales
05. IV. Sufficit Lumen In Tenebris
Messiaen: Catalogue d’Oiseaux Book 3
06. La Chouette Hulotte
07. L’Alouette Lulu
Anderson: Sensation
08. I. She Hears
09. II. Toucher
10. III. Sight Lines
11. IV. Nuits
12. V. Alba
13. VI. Coda
CD 02
Messiaen: Catalogue d’Oiseaux Book 4
01. La Rousserolle Effarvatte
02. Grieg: Chanson d’Approche
Messiaen: Catalogue d’Oiseaux Book 5
03. Alouette Calandrelle
04. La Bouscarle
Debussy: Préludes – Book 1
05. No. 4 “Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir”
Grieg: Lyric Pieces V, Op. 54
06. No. 4 Notturno
English pianist Roderick Chadwick has recorded the second volume in a series which presents Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux coupled with works which are linked either in style or subject matter. This follows the well-received issue in October 2020 of the first volume, entitled ‘La Mer Bleue ’which included Book 1 of the Catalogue. This double album is a continuation of Chadwick’s journey through Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux, programming it alongside an array of solo piano works that share its themes, atmospheres and inspirations. The latest issue features Books 2 through 5, including the cycle’s great centrepiece ‘La rousserolle effarvatte’ (The Reed Warbler), which evokes the sights and sounds of the Sologne region across a full day’s span. Roderick Chadwick, as both soloist and collaborator, has performed some of the most challenging works for piano; his recent Stockhausen disc was highly praised. He is a particular expert on Messiaen and in 2018 co-authored and published a book on the Catalogue d’oiseaux. He lives in South London and is Reader in Music at the Royal Academy of Music.