Many documentaries, some of them extremely interesting, have been made about Messiaen; very few about his wife. And yet, over and above its intrinsic human interest, the couple they formed embodies the indispensable relationship between the composer and his interpreter. Messiaen was an unusually gifted pianist and an organist fit to rank among the finest, but without Yvonne Loriod who heard his new pieces during their gestation and sometimes played his sketches for him, would he have written so large a body of keyboard works?
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23 авг 2024
