More Messiaen ? Surely not ! But if you want to learn a language, one of the best ways is to immerse yourself completely. The South Bank this year has been running the biggest-ever Messiaen retrospective, in which every single piece is being performed bar St Francis which is coming later at The Proms, straight from the production at Amsterdam. Play a bit with google and see what I've done. There is the "main" introduction to the Festival, titled "From the Canyons to the Stars" which kind of sums it all up ! This is a wonderful series - Susanna Malkki the sensational new Director of Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted Des Canyons aux Etoiles, Salonen made complete sense of Turangalila (a miracle !), Aimard played Vingt Regards. Jennifer Bate Le livre du Ste Sacrament. So if you have spare time look them up on google on these searches and for a change it's not all amazon links. (There are lots of others but track them down yourself)
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