"La Nativité du Seigneur" by Olivier Messiaen
A note from this blog's curator: composers are tough and don't easily fit into this blog's format (the same goes for jazz musicians and most musicians whose work came out in the first half of the 20th century). I'm going to do my best to find the earliest possible recordings of these artists, but I don't have the time or resources to be a completionist towards their work as I am with modern recordings. A lot of such early recordings are likely to never have made the digitizing jump anyway. Still, I hope to explore as much work of these artists as I can. Back to the show.
Stockhausen studied under French composer and organist Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur released in 1957. Stokowski (who is very prevalent as a conductor on many early popular classical recordings) recorded a handful of Messiaen compositions and released them in 1949.
Here is the discography surrounding Olivier Messiaen's debut album:
Leopold Stokowski Conducts Messiaen and Vaughan Williams (1949 album)
La Nativité du Seigneur
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