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Les yeux clos

Les yeux clos

Piano Work of Tōru Takemitsu & Olivier Messiaen

  • 2025
  • Stradivarius Music Label STR 37214

Recording, editing and master
Heikki Savolainen

Piano technician
Matti Kyllönen

Production
Stradivarius Music Label STR 37214

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Reviews

New review on Klassik Heute

  • September 29, 2025
  • Guido Krawinkel
  • Klassik Heute
New review on the Klassik Heute website. Read the full review: http://www.klassik-heute.de/4daction/www_medien_einzeln?id=24944
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Il nuovo CD pianistico di Sanna Vaarni dedicato a Takemitsu e Messiaen – CorriereBit

Sanna Vaarni’s new piano CD dedicated to Takemitsu and Messiaen – CorriereBit

  • July 5, 2025
  • Cesare Guzzardella
  • CorriereBit
Finnish composer Sanna Vaarni’s new piano CD, Les yeux clos, was released by Stradivarius in January. It offers an interesting comparison between two 20th-century musicians born in opposite places: Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996) and French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992).
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Here is a new beautiful review on the magazine “PianoNews”

  • March 17, 2025
  • PianoNews
Since the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, French composers have been fascinated by Asian art and music.
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Clic Magazine - Jérome Angouillant

New review on Clic Magazine

  • March 5, 2025
  • Jérome Angouillant
  • Clic Magazine
Ce couplage inédit de deux composititeurs éminents du vingtiéme siècle appartenant à deux univers distincts, Orient/Occident
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Pizzicato – pizzicato.lu/

  • February 2, 2025
  • Remy Franks
  • Pizzicato
Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu describes Messiaen as his spiritual mentor, saying that «among the many things I have learned from his music, the concept and experience of the color and form of time will be unforgettable».
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BlowUp Magazine – blowupmagazine.com/

  • January 30, 2025
  • Remy Franks
  • Pizzicato
(in italian) La pianista Sanna Vaarni ha scelto di porre a confronto composizioni di Olivier Messiaen e Töru Takemitsu, scelte per cercare punti di contatto tra i due autori e, per estensione, fra la cultura musicale occidentale e orientale.
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