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…

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…