Bertrand Chamayou - Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus Format:CD This is a considerably expanded

This is a considerably expanded version of Ace Records 1987 long-player 'Jimmy's House Party'

this CD reissue will also include a bonus track recorded live on WSOU radio in New Jersey

Music from the Sebastian String Quartet's native Croatia

and starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped from the cosmos

Bertrand Chamayou - Messiaen, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus Format:CD This is a considerably expanded"A giant fresco, a kind of odyssey," is Bertrand Chamayou's description of Olivier Messiaen's piano masterwork, Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant Jsus. Written in 1944, it is a monumental, mystical and iridescent sequence of 20 gazes or contemplations on the infant Jesus. Messiaen once wrote that "The drama of my life is that I have written religious music for an audience that has no faith." Bertrand Chamayou feels that the Vingt Regards "is a mystical