Messiaen's vast meditation on aspects of the infant Jesus cannot have a better interpreter than Pierre Laurent Aimard, who was a pupil of the composer and is widely regarded as his foremost exponent. "Vingt Regards Sur l'Enfant Jesus" can only have come from the devout religious mystic Messiaen. Highly complex, the work depicts contemplations of the child Jesus from twenty different points of view, including God the Father, the Virgin, and the angels.