Souvenirs d’oiseaux Roderick Chadwick

• Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992): Catalogue d'oiseaux, Book 2:
• 1 Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux, Book 2: Le Traquet Stapazin 14:12
• Sadie Harrison (b. 1965): Lunae: Four Nocturnes:
• 2 Harrison: Lunae: Four Nocturnes: I. Around and a round... 03:07
• 3 Harrison: Lunae: Four Nocturnes: II. Love is the Silence in Which I Remember You and Repeat You 03:19
• 4 Harrison: Lunae: Four Nocturnes: III. Of Stars and Nightingales 02:59
• Olivier Messiaen: Lunae: Four Nocturnes:
• 5 Messiaen: Lunae: Four Nocturnes: IV. Sufficit Lumen In Tenebris 02:17
• Catalogue D’oiseaux, Book 3:
• 6 Messiaen: Catalogue D’oiseaux, Book 3: La Chouette Hulotte 07:33
• 7 Messiaen: Catalogue D’oiseaux, Book 3: L’Alouette Lulu 07:02
• Julian Anderson (b. 1967): Sensation:
• 8 Anderson: Sensation: I. She Hears 05:03
• 9 Anderson: Sensation: II. Toucher 03:17
• 10 Anderson: Sensation: III. Sight Lines 01:51
• 11 Anderson: Sensation: IV. Nuits 04:52
• 12 Anderson: Sensation: V. Alba 05:34
• 13 Anderson: Sensation: VI. Coda 02:22
• Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue D’Oiseaux, Book 4:
• 14 Messiaen: Catalogue D’Oiseaux, Book 4: La Rousserolle Effarvatte 30:25
• Betsy Jolas (b. 1926): Chanson d’Approche:
• 15 Jolas: Chanson d’Approche 08:37
• Olivier Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 5:
• 16 Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 5: Alouette Calandrelle 05:25
• 17 Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 5: La Bouscarle 11:34
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Préludes Book 1:
• 18 Debussy: Préludes Book 1: No. 4 “Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir” 02:58
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907): Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54:
• 19 Grieg: Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54: No. 4 Notturno 03:24
• Total Runtime 02:05:51

Info for Souvenirs d’oiseaux

English pianist Roderick Chadwick has recorded the second volume in a series which presents Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux coupled with works which are linked either in style or subject matter. This follows the well-received issue in October 2020 of the first volume, entitled 'La Mer Bleue' which included Book 1 of the Catalogue. This double album is a continuation of Chadwick's journey through Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux, programming it alongside an array of solo piano works that share it's themes, atmospheres and inspirations. The latest issue features Books 2 through 5, including the cycle's great centrepiece 'La rousserolle effarvatte' (The Reed Warbler), which evokes the sights and sounds of the Sologne region across a full day's span. Roderick Chadwick, as both soloist and collaborator, has performed some of the most challenging works for piano; his recent Stockhausen disc was highly praised. He is a particular expert on Messiaen and in 2018 co-authored and published a book on the Catalogue d'oiseaux. He lives in South London and is Reader in Music at the Royal Academy of Music.

Roderick Chadwick, piano

Roderick Chadwick
was born in Manchester and educated at Chetham’s School of Music, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Hamish Milne. He was awarded the Mosco Carner Fellowship in 1997-8 and joined the academic staff of the Academy in 1999. Since then he has combined his teaching and research interests with an active career as a soloist and chamber musician, particularly in the field of contemporary music. He has performed at many of Britain’s most prominent venues including the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, the Wigmore Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, where he made his Southbank debut in 1996 playing the Tippett Piano Concerto. As an undergraduate in Cambridge he performed the complete piano works of Olivier Messiaen, an experience which sparked his continuing research interest in Messiaen’s music and that of his students.

Roderick’s long-standing duo partnerships with violinists Chloë Hanslip and Narimichi Kawabata have seen him perform widely in Europe, the United States and Asia, including recitals at Seoul Arts Centre, Auditorium du Louvre, Schloss Elmau and Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. In addition to CHROMA, he is a founder-member of the avant-garde Ensemble Plus-Minus, with whom he has appeared at the Huddersfield, Ultima (Oslo) and TRANSIT (Leuven) festivals.

Many of his performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, as well as on national radio in France, Japan and South Korea, and he has recently featured on CD recordings on the Innova, Guild, and Victor (Japan) labels.

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