December 10, 2023

20,000 vinyl LPs 344: Olivier Messiaen - Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus

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vinyl LP album front cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


Today is the birthday of a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th centuryOlivier Messiaen was born into a literary family on December 10, 1908, in Avignon, France.        
 
The Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus ("Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus") is a suite of 20 pieces for solo piano. The suite is a meditation on the infancy of Jesus.            


vinyl LP album front cover
photo of album cover by Styrous®



back cover photo by Dorothea v Haeften 
vinyl LP album back cover
photo of album cover by Styrous®










 
 
 
 
 










 



   
Tracklist:
       
Side 1:
        
        Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus   
A1        1. Regard Du Père    8:06
A2        2. Regard De L'Etoile    3:31
A3        3. L'Échange    3:18
A4        4. Regard De La Vierge    4:48
A5        5. Regard Du Fils Sur Le Fils    6:22
       
Side 2:
        
B1        6. Par Lui Tout A Été Fait    10:46
B2        7. Regard De La Croix    4:13
B3        8. Regard Des Hauteurs    2:16
B4        9. Regard Du Temps    2:48
B5        10. Regard De L'Esprit De Joie    7:59
       
Side 3:
 
C1        11. Première Communion De La Vierge    8:03
C2        12. La Parole Toute Puissante    2:24
C3        13. Noël    4:06
C4        14. Regard Des Anges    4:31        
       
Side 4:
       
D1        15. Le Baiser De L'Enfant Jésus    12:04
D2        16. Regard Des Prophètes, Des Bergers Et Des Mages    2:29
D3        17. Regard Du Silence    6:03
D4        18. Regard De L'Onction Terrible    5:29
E1        19. Je Dors, Mais Mon Coeur Veille    8:40
E2        20. Regard De L'Église D’Amour    12:56
                      Catalogue D'Oiseaux   
F        No. 7 (Volume 4) La Rousserolle Effarvatte    28:14
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Record Company – RCA Corporation
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – RCA Records
    Copyright © – RCA Records
    Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
       
Credits:
       
    Composed By – Messiaen*
    Coordinator [Cover Art Coordinator] – Stephanie Spinner
    Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Richard Gardner
    Liner Notes – Max Wilcox
    Liner Notes [From Notes In The Score By] – Olivier Messiaen
    Liner Notes [Translated By] – Catherine de Montmarin, Peter Serkin
    Painting – Pier Francesco Fiorentino
    Photography By [Liner Photo] – Dorothea v Haeften*
    Piano – Peter Serkin
    Producer – Max Wilcox, Peter Serkin
       
Notes:
       
2-page LP-sized program notes enclosed.

This is an auto-coupled release, with sequence of sides being A-F, B-E, C-D.

© 1975, RCA Records, New York, N.Y.
℗ 1975 RCA Records.
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
        
    Price Code (Printed on spine): 1398
    Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped): CRL3 0759 A 5 I Λ 1
    Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped): CRL3-0759B-2 I Λ3
    Matrix / Runout (Side C runout, stamped): CRL3-0759C -2 I B1
    Matrix / Runout (Side D runout, stamped): CRL3-0759d-1 I Λ2
    Matrix / Runout (Side E runout, stamped): CRL3 0759E 4 I Λ 1
    Matrix / Runout (Side F runout, stamped): CRL3-0759F-2 I Λ3
 
Messiaen* / Peter Serkin – Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus / La Rousserolle Effarvatte
Label: RCA Red Seal – CRL3-0759
Format:    3 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Box Set
Country: US
Released: May 1975
Genre: Classical
Style: Modern, Contemporary


         
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