Messiaen: Vingt Regards 7.30 today R3

[Bryn]

Glad to report that the audio problems I experienced last night via Freeview appear to be entirely absent via the iPlayer. My guess is that the Freeview signal was a little weak and the perceived disruption was down to error correction artefacts. A little like the boiling mud of a poor DAB signal.

[BBMmk2]

Some glowing accounts here. I think I shall have to listen to the Hyperion CDs today, it's the closest I'll get. I don't remember this recording setting my world on fire, but maybe I wasn't concentrating. I'm more of a Catalogue d'oiseaux sort of person myself - Vingt Regards often seems to me to pile one ecstatic climax on another until diminishing returns begin to set in.

Thank you Richard. I thought he had recorded this work. I would love to hear it live though.