Peter Serkin, Yuji Takahashi
Olivier Messiaen - Visions De L’AMen
RCA (Japan) 1973
SX-2041 (LP) textured gatefold sleeve. w/obi.
sleeve : EX-(some slightly dirts on inside of gatefold.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light noise.)
An album featuring Olivier Messiaen’s Pour Deux Pianos, performed by Yuji Takahashi—composer, pianist, and leading contemporary music figure who studied musical theory under Iannis Xenakis and stands alongside Toru Takemitsu and Toshi Ichiyanagi in international prominence—and the prodigiously gifted pianist Peter Serkin, son of the legendary Rudolf Serkin, who made his Carnegie Hall debut at just seventeen with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Takahashi takes the First Piano and Serkin the Second, and true to the work’s title and conception, they traverse seven movements structured around the emblematic imagery of Catholic mysticism—creation, anguish, desire, divine judgment, and the end—rendering Messiaen’s intricate rhythms and harmonic architecture through a deeply individual interpretive lens.
A3: Amen Pe I’Agonie de Jesus
B1: Amen du Desir