Catalogue d’oiseaux

Album by Olivier Messiaen & Yvonne Loriod

Catalogue d'oiseaux is a cycle of thirteen piano pieces by French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed between 1956 and 1958. The works deploy Messiaen's characteristic modes of limited transposition, additive and non-retrogradable rhythms and detailed transcriptions of birdsong, creating dense, colouristic piano textures that reflect his interest in ornithology and liturgical notions of time, and they form a significant component of his mature solo-piano repertoire and mid-20th-century developments in harmonic and rhythmic language.

Catalogue d’oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen - album cover

First released: 1971

Classical Serialism Impressionism Modern Classical

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Disc 1

1.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : Le chocard des alpes (Coracia graculus)
10:25
2.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : Le loriot (Oriolus oriolus)
9:20
3.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : Le merle bleu (Monticola solitarius)
13:30
4.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : Le traquet stapazin (Œnanthe hispanica)
15:50

Disc 2

1.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : La chouette hulotte (Strix aluco)
8:10
2.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : L'alouette lulu (Lullula arborea)
8:55
3.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : La rousserolle effarvatte (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
30:20

Disc 3

1.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : L'alouette calandrelle (Calandrella brachydactyla)
5:25
2.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : La bouscarle (Cettia cetti)
11:20
3.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : Le merle de roche (Monticola saxatilis)
18:45
4.
Catalogue d'oiseaux : La buse variable (Buteo buteo)
9:30