Wash out your ears
Adam Shatz: Messiaen’s Ecstasies, 20 February 2025
Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography
by Robert Sholl.
Reaktion, 255 pp., £25, May 2024,978 1 78914 865 7 Show More
by Robert Sholl.
Reaktion, 255 pp., £25, May 2024,
Messiaen in Context
edited by Robert Sholl.
Cambridge, 348 pp., £95, November 2023,978 1 108 48791 7 Show More
edited by Robert Sholl.
Cambridge, 348 pp., £95, November 2023,
“... Messiaen’s goal, exactly: he wrote music to praise God, not to proselytise. Nonetheless, as Robert Sholl argues in his ‘critical biography’, it’s not easy to disentangle Messiaen’s art from his belief that in composing he was ‘making a transcendent God empirical and sensate’. The music, ... ”
