🇫🇷Olivier Messiaen ： Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus Regard des hauteurs

This piece leaves a strong impression through its expansive sonorities and spiritual tension, as if gazing upon the Child Jesus from above. Wide-ranging chords and layers of overlapping sounds create a sense of grandeur within the stillness, giving significance even to brief changes in motion. Listening closely to the shifting sonorities and passages where the musical density increases or recedes reveals the music’s broad breathing. In performance, it is important to balance the voices carefully so that the inner parts do not disappear. The pedal should preserve the resonance without creating blurring; maintaining supported tones and a steady flow of time even in quiet passages allows a prayer-like concentration to emerge.