Title: La Vallee Des Cloches Artist: Momo Kodama Label: Ecm Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 028948104260 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2014-01-28 Number of Discs: 1
Momo Kodama's 2014 is a marvel, a mesmerizing journey from the shimmering surfaces of Miroirs, Ravel's piano cycle of 1904-45 to Messiaen's Fauvette des jardins (written in 1970), a late masterpiece of piano music from the visionary composer. Kodama's insights into Messiaen's sound-world are remarkable as she conveys his religious feeling for nature, birdsong transformed into spiritual utterance, through the compelling, insistent piano figures. Linking the two pieces like a walkway is Toru Takemitsu's Rain Tree Sketch (1982), music from the East informed by Western experiment.
Tracks: 1.1 Noctuelles 1.2 Oiseaux Tristes 1.3 Une Barque Sur L Ocean 1.4 Alborada Del Gracioso 1.5 La Vallee Des Cloches 1.6 Rain Tree Sketch 1.7 La Fauvette Des Jardins
