Alexandra Dariescu - Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Faur?, Olivier Messiaen, Alexandra Dariescu: Complete Preludes, Vol. 3

This is Alexandra Dariescu�s final release in the trilogy of Parisian preludes. Boulanger�s solo Prelude for Piano gives us a glimpse of what Lili might have gone on to write, had she lived beyond the age of 24. Faur�s Preludes Op 103, published in 1910 are by comparison relatively late works but contain some of his most startling and original piano writing; which Aaron Copland referred to elegantly as 'intensity on a background of calm�. Finally on this recording, Messiaen gives each of his eight prelude a title, accompanied by a description often including the colours Messiaen experienced in this music through his synaesthesia, and reflecting his life-long love of birdsong.