Messiaen/ Longobardi - Piano Music Release:Piano Music Piano Classics Together the musicians dedicate themselves

Together the musicians dedicate themselves to chamber music of the 17th and 18th century whose Old Masters they explore over and over with boundless curiosity

It might be the band at their most 'Stooge-esque' since there is no flowery imagery

the first side is four songs that will hopefully grab the listeners' attention and lead them to side two with the two long songs

Perhaps the strongest tool utilized here is the material's dichotomy between the abrasive and the sterile

Messiaen/ Longobardi - Piano Music Release:Piano Music Piano Classics Together the musicians dedicate themselvesWhile most listeners to 20th century music and piano masterpieces will have recordings of Messiaen's two major cycles in their collection, the rest of his piano music often tends to fly under the radar. Yet Messiaen wrote piano music throughout his life, and among his most characteristic early works is the set of eight Preludes, with their playful evocations of wind and air and dreams and light. The piano writing may owe much to Debussy's example, but