Michael Bonaventure - Olivier Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement (2008) 2 CDs
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Genre: Classical, Organ | Label: Delphian Records | # DCD34076 | Time: 01:57:05
The seeds for Messiaen's final organ work were sown during an inspirational trip to Israel in 1984. Over the course of the next twelve months, Messiaen found improvisation leading him back to composition after the exhausting labours that had produced his mighty opera Saint François d'Assise.The Livre du Saint Sacrement became Messiaen's grand farewell to his own instrument, and Michael Bonaventure performs it from memory here on the Rieger organ at St Giles' Cathedral, the true acoustic of which preserves the clarity of Messiaen's lines.