Messiaen POV / POX

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7pD3Nu0_4

clouds, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link

Des Canyons aux Etoiles is a good starting point imo, a lot of sides to him in there - dissonant piano, faux-jazzy moments, birdsong, blasts of colour, no Ondes Martenots though, but those huge brass chorales...

Trois Liturgies and Turangalila are good entry points as well - I agree that the Quartet is maybe not the best place to start unless you really want to throw yourself in at the bleak end.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link

vingt regards
four rhythmic studies
poemes pour mi
catalogue d'oiseaux
turangalila

the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link

:D

Eric H., Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link

the rhythmic studies are awesome

wanna finally hear some of the pieces i don't know like "sept hakai"

why dost thou hide thyself in (clouds), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link

very seldom spend a lot of time with his music these days but the first two there are the only compositions by him that i would certainly describe as great

i like visions de l'amen a lot but it is a bit gamelan-kitsch

the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Catalogue d'Oiseaux about to begin on Radio 3:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/59gGShVsVZL0ZbgNv5RGVYc/birdsong-on-radio-3

toby, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link


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