The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956-58), Books 1-3

Album by Olivier Messiaen & Peter Hill

The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956-58), Books 1-3 is an album of solo piano works by French composer Olivier Messiaen, presenting the cycle composed between 1956 and 1958. The pieces employ transcribed birdsong, colouristic modal and polychromatic harmonies, extended pianistic textures and complex rhythms to evoke landscapes and avian calls, reflecting Messiaen's exploration of ornithology and colour-based harmonic technique within mid-20th-century French classical music.