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Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Wow – I didn’t know this piece until very recently: Messiaen’s extraordinary Turangalîla Symphonie. This is just the fifth movement, a bombastic feast of joy and color. And look at the size of that orchestra!
@wellelainasays Woo hoo!
Just had the most spectacular rehearsal in Hamburg for tomorrow night's concert. 700 singers from all over Germany! http://t.co/raa31xZD
So good. http://t.co/hjTF8hGu
@sabalom_glitzy ;-)
@katieschooling GREAT memories for me, too, Katie.
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7 Comments
Matt on September 4, 2010 at 1:56 pm
That's so crazy, I was just looking up art songs by Messiaen! Yeah, color up the wazoo.
Lawrence on September 4, 2010 at 7:32 pm
I see you found my upload of this piece! I have other movements posted from the piece on my YouTube account, also. I hope to upload more from that performance soon, when I have time.
Robert D. Pore on September 6, 2010 at 1:17 pm
This movement was more or less the first piece of Messiaen's I heard back in high school! It astonishes me that you hadn't heard it till now. One of my favorite pieces – I have to have listened to this movement a couple dozen or so times by now and it never gets old.
Drew on September 7, 2010 at 2:48 am
bombastic is a good word for it
Matt on September 7, 2010 at 3:05 am
This is a fantastic piece by the great Messiaen. My entire freshmen class was required to study Messiaen's Quartet for the end of time as part of our required general education class "Freshman Studies", and after being introduced to him I became more and more interested. A great piece to check out is his choral piece "O sacrum convivium" another one of my favorite choral pieces. =D enjoy!! and thank you for the upload. more people need to hear messiaen.
Kyle Gunby on September 11, 2010 at 8:47 pm
That was a magnificently eerie piece…almost too eeire for my taste. I just thought the synth on the keyboard was a bit cheesy and over-the-top.
Matthew Samson on October 4, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Such a great piece! Little fun fact: Leela from Futurama is actually named after it, her full name being Turanga Leela :-)