Above All

Now listening to Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Book 2: Le Traquet Stapazin (The Black-eared Wheatear) and massively glad to be doing so. Peter Hill is delivering the bird's music, alternately knocking hell out of his piano and then laying down lines of crystalline beauty - with lots of scrawls and squiggles in between. One chord sequence reminds me of the Turangalila, specifically Jardin du sommeil d’amour (Garden of Love’s Sleep). Yes, it's that good. Transcendent. Healing. Should be made available at all pharmacies.

(The link above is to Yvonne Loriod's version, by the way. Just as good as Hill's - as, of course, you'd expect from Mrs Messiaen.)