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    • Sacred: Vingt Regards

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Vingt Regards

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    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…
    Sacred: Vingt Regards

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Vingt Regards

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    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…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Taking its title from Olivier Messiaen’s Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call), this program traces the evolution of the modern French brass sound — from the grandeur of early 20th-century fanfares to Messiaen’s cosmic lyricism. Written in 1971 as part of Des canyons aux étoiles..., Messiaen’s solo horn piece sits at the heart of the…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Messiaen's Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call) sits at the heart of this program: a solo horn work that transforms breath and resonance into something vast and otherworldly. Alongside it, music by Dukas, Tomasi, Boulanger, and Bizet reveal how French composers reimagined the brass ensemble as ceremonial and spiritual — capable of…