Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod and Messiaen biographer Nigel Simeone explore nature in Messiaen's music, given the significant presence in it of birdsong and the inspiration it derives from landscape. La Colombe (8 Preludes) Martin Zehn (piano) Arte Nova 82876 57833 2 - Tr 1 La grive des bois (Des canyons aux etoiles) Roger Muraro (piano) Jean-Jacques Justafre (horn) Francis Petit (xylorimba) Renaud Muzzolini (glockenspiel) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) DG 471 617-2 CD 2 - Tr 3 La chouette hulotte; L'alouette lulu (Catalogue d'oiseaux) Yvonne Loriod (piano) ERATO ECD71590 - Trs 5-6 Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Cleveland Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor) DG 445 827-2 - Ts 9-13.