Carnegie Hall - Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-symphonie

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Messiaen’s
Turangalîla-symphonie

Turangalîla-symphonie
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Visions de l’amen

Olivier Messiaen:
An Appreciation

Discovery Day: Olivier Messiaen

Sun, Feb 24, 2008
1–5:30 PM | Weill Recital Hall

Pierre Boulez, Speaker
Peter Hill, Speaker
Michael Mizrahi, Piano
Elizabeth Joy Roe, Piano

In the centennial year of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, Carnegie Hall explores the life and work of this French master with a Discovery Day of panel discussions, talks, and a film screening. The event will include an interview with composer-conductor Pierre Boulez—a close colleague and former student of Messiaen—and will conclude with a performance of Messiaen’s Visions de l’amen for two pianos.

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Discovery Concert: Messiaen’s Turangalîla- symphonie

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, Music Director and Conductor
Nicolas Hodges, Piano
Cynthia Millar, Ondes Martenot

An engaging multimedia presentation, with enlightening discussion guided by Maestro Robertson and a full performance of Messiaen’s orchestral masterpiece, a transcendent tribute to love fusing the Sanskrit words turanga (“time”) and lîla (“play”).

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Carnegie Hall - Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-symphonie

“No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.”

—Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-symphonie

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Turangalîla-symphonie

Paul Schiavo explores each of the ten movements of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie with musical examples.

I. Introduction
Modéré, un peu vif

II. Chant d'amour (Love Song) 1
Modéré, lourd

III. Turangalîla 1
Presque lent, rêveur

IV. Chant d'amour 2
Bien modéré

V. Joie du sang des étoiles
(Joy of the Blood of the Stars)
Vif, passionné avec joie

VI. Jardin du sommeil d’amour
(Garden of Love’s Sleep)
Très modéré, très tendre

VII. Turangalîla 2
Un peu vif, bien modéré

VIII. Développement d’amour
(Development of Love)
Bien modéré

IX. Turangalîla 3
Bien modéré

X. Final
Modéré, presque vif, avec une grande joie

Paul Schiavo writes frequently on music and is the program annotator for the Seattle Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Program from the Boston Symphony Orchestra's premiere performance of Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie

Program from the New York premiere of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Hans Vonk and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie

Olivier Messiaen; Turangalîla- symphonie, featuring Garrick Ohlsson, piano and Jean Laurendeau, onedes martenot; recorded live with the Saint Louis Symphony at Powell Symphony Hall under the direction of Hans Vonk.
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