Messiaen devised his own musical language far beyond conventional Western composition techniques and harmonies. His music is filled with beauty, adoration and passion but also speaks of the dangerously close relationship between total despair and pure bliss. This version of Visions De L'Amen, performed by Messiaen and Loriod, will have you sitting at the edge of your seat while they turn you inside out and upside down before ripping you apart and in the end miraculously putting you back together again, just in time before the last notes fade away. Visionary and transforming music, not for the faint of heart.