The great compositional titan of the 20th century, Olivier Messiaen, wrote his monumental Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (“Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus”) in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War.
This suite of 20 works for solo piano meditates on the infant Jesus, a subject often revisited in Messiaen’s music. A deeply spiritual man, he sought through sound to unite the celestial songs of birds, meticulously transcribed from nature, with intricate polyphony and transendental musical colours and textures.
Performed by Timothy Young, Paavali Jumppanen and the ANAM pianists in the surrounds of the Good Shepherd Chapel, this will be an absorbing presentation of one of the most distinctive and visionary works in the piano repertoire.
Olivier MESSIAEN Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Timothy Young (Resident Faculty, Head of Piano) piano
Paavali Jumppanen (Artistic Director) piano
ANAM Pianists
Duration: approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
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Image credit: Gerrit van Honthorst, “Adoration of the Child,” c. 1620. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.