Catalogue d’oiseaux

Album by Olivier Messiaen & Yvonne Loriod

Catalogue d'oiseaux is a solo piano cycle by French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed between 1956 and 1958. The work transforms transcriptions of birdsong into highly elaborate, rhythmically intricate piano writing using Messiaen's modes of limited transposition and vivid harmonic colour, and it occupies a central place in his later piano output as a culmination of his ornithological studies and exploration of the piano's orchestral possibilities.

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  1. 1.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 1 : 1. Le chocard des Alpes
    8:51
  2. 2.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 1 : 2. Le loriot
    7:04
  3. 3.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 1 : 3. Le merle bleu
    12:27
  4. 4.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 2 : 4. Le traquet stapazin
    14:36
  5. 5.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 3 : 5. La chouette hulotte
    6:23
  6. 6.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 3 : 6. L’alouette lulu
    6:41
  7. 7.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 4 : 7. La rousserolle effarvatte
    29:42
  8. 8.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 5 : 8. L’alouette calandrelle
    5:33
  9. 9.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 5 : 9. La bouscarle
    10:15
  10. 10.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 6 : 10. Le merle de roche
    18:34
  11. 11.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 7 : 11. La buse variable
    10:11
  12. 12.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 7 : 12. Le traquet rieur
    9:05
  13. 13.
    Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 7 : 13. Le courlis cendré
    9:35

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