Momo Kodama: La Vallee Des Cloches - CD

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