Ciro Longobardi

Ciro Longobardi – Messiaen: Piano Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:48:06 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Olivier Messiaen

New recordings from an acclaimed Messiaen pianist of major works beyond the Vingt regards and Catalogue d’oiseaux.

While most listeners to 20th-century music and piano masterpieces will have recordings of Messiaen’s two major cycles in their collection, the rest of his piano music often tends to fly under the radar. Yet Messiaen wrote piano music throughout his life, and among his most characteristic early works is the set of eight Preludes, with their playful evocations of wind and air and dreams and light.

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