Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

An ideal programme for the Paris of the early sixties, which looked to Vienna and to Messiaen at the same time. On one side, Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony op. 9 (1906), fifteen soloists on the brink of tonality, and the Three Orchestral Pieces of 1910, fragments of his most radical expressionist period. On the other, Olivier Messiaen's Sept haïkaï (1962), the "Japanese sketches" written after his trip to Japan, with gagaku textures, birds and the temples of Nara.

Sept haïkaï was premiered in 1963 at the Domaine Musical, the concert series founded by Pierre Boulez, which also championed the Viennese school. An original Philips pressing from the period.