Yuji Takahashi, Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen : Visions de L’Amen
RCA Red Seal (Japan) 1973
SX-2041 (LP)
sleeve : VG+(color-faded.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)
Contemporary musician/composer/pianist Yuji Takahashi, who studied music theory under Iannis Xenakis and is active worldwide alongside Toshi Ichiyanagi and Toru Takemitsu, and the precocious pianist Peter Serkin, whose father was the great Rudorf Serkin, made their Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 17 in a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra. This album was released in 1973. With Yuji Takahashi on the first piano and Peter Serkin on the second, the album is a unique interpretation of seven movements composed of complex rhythms and chords based on the table of contents images of Catholic mysticism: creation, anguish, desire, divine judgment, and the end. The seven movements are composed of complex rhythms and chords.
A3: Amen Pe I’Agonie de JesusB1: Amen du Desir