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Lavender Kite Audio Research Hour: Olivier Messiaen
Calgary, 25.02.19
Focus on Olivier Messiaen
Barnaby Bennett & guest Laura Reid explore the work groundbreaking classical composer Olivier Messiaen.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a groundbreaking composer who was revolutionary in his approach to Classical music, incorporating wide ranging sound influences, from birdsong to new technology. A synaesthete and devout Catholic, his music is immersive, spiritual, and spellbinding. This is a collection of pieces put together by the composer's second wife, pianist Yvonne Loriod, after Olivier's death and published in 2001. Finally, we end the episode with recordings of Messiaen himself playing excerpts from his composition Nativité Du Seigneur, written in 1935. These are three movements out of the nine "meditations" he wrote reflecting on the birth of Jesus.
Tracklist
- Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 1, Premières Fusées - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 2, L'eau - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 3, Les Fusées - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 4, L'eau - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 5, Les Fusées - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 6, L'eau, à Son Maximum De Hauteur - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 7, Superposition De L'eau Et Des Fusées - Fête Des Belles Eaux
No. 8, Feu D'artifice Final - Feuillets Inedits
No. 1. Presque Lent Et Berceur - Feuillets Inedits
No. 2. Lent - Feuillets Inedits
No. 3. Bien Modere - Feuillets Inedits
No. 4. Lent - La Nativité Du Seigneur
9 Méditations - I La Vierge Et L'enfant - La Nativité Du Seigneur
9 Méditations - III Desseins Éternels - La Nativité Du Seigneur
9 Méditations - V Les Enfants De Dieu