Mystic: The Musical Visions of Olivier Messiaen is a sort of greatest-hits package for the composer that followed in the wake of his death in 1992, though none too hard -- Mystic did not appear until 1996. It is a Messiaen compilation that shapes certain movements taken out of longer works into a sort of easy listening context, and it does provide some clues to the uninitiated as to how to access Messiaen, but in itself, Mystic is a little disingenuous. There are no transcribed birdcalls, no Chronochromie, nothing from ...
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Mystic: The Musical Visions of Olivier Messiaen is a sort of greatest-hits package for the composer that followed in the wake of his death in 1992, though none too hard -- Mystic did not appear until 1996. It is a Messiaen compilation that shapes certain movements taken out of longer works into a sort of easy listening context, and it does provide some clues to the uninitiated as to how to access Messiaen, but in itself, Mystic is a little disingenuous. There are no transcribed birdcalls, no Chronochromie, nothing from Quatour du le fin de temps, nor anything else that indicates what a challenging and intense composer Messiaen was. Just the prettiest parts of some pieces that are not in themselves necessarily very "pretty," couched in a sort of vaguely stated mysticism. The individual movements themselves are certainly well done and recorded; all of them are taken from the exemplary work of conductor Myung-Whun Chung for Deutsche Grammophon, recordings that Messiaen himself regarded as authoritative....
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