Messiaen: Organ Works: Gillian Weir

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    Messiaen: Organ Works (CD)
    Registration is beautiful. Messiaen, as I have always loved the organ, the instrument he himself practiced, is wonderfully rendered by Gillian Weir: there are excellent meditation, jubilation, well built that burgeoning love this composer. Of course,
  • Major organ works of Olivier Messiaen, beautifully interpreted  

    Messiaen: Organ Works (CD)
    Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon in 1908. Son of Pierre Messiaen and the poetess Cécile Sauvage, he was deeply influenced by the poems of her mother. At the time of the First World War, he acquired a Catholic faith that never left him. He joined