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La Nativité Du Seigneur
A1	La Vierge Et L'Enfant
A2	Les Bergers
A3	Desseins Éternels
A4	Le Verbe
B1	Les Enfants De Dieu
B2	Les Anges
B3	Jésus Accepte La Souffrance
B4	Les Mages
B5	Dieu Parmi Nous

Credits

• Composed By – Olivier Messiaen
• Cover, Painting – Jan Gossaert
• Layout [Sleeve Layout] – Arran Studios
• Liner Notes – Felix Aprahamian
• Organ – Jennifer Bate
• Photography – Oliva
• Producer, Engineer – Bob Auger

Notes

Recording Location: Grandes Orgues de la Cathédrale Saint Pierre de Beauvais, France, recorded between 15th and 19th August 1980.

Technical information: Recorded utilising a single Calrec 'Soundfield' microphone feeding a Sony 1600 Digital Recorder. This record is Ambisonic UHJ 2-channel encoded, stereo compatible. It may be perfectly played as ordinary stereo. However, a greatly enhanced sense of space and direction will be obtained using an Ambisonic UHJ decoder feeding four or more loudspeakers.

Cover painting: 'The Adoration of the Kings' by Jan Gossaert (called Mabuse). Reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London.

℗ 1981
Label: Made in W. Germany.
Sleeve printed in West Germany.

Side A duration is 29:40
Side B duration is 25:01

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
DKP (CD) 9005	Olivier Messiaen, Jennifer Bate	Olivier Messiaen, Jennifer Bate - Organ Works: La Nativité Du Seigneur / Le Banquet Celeste ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Unicorn-Kanchana	DKP (CD) 9005	UK	1987