Comments on: Messiaen

By: Matthew Samson

Matthew Samson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:12:12 +0000

Such a great piece! Little fun fact: Leela from Futurama is actually named after it, her full name being Turanga Leela :-)

By: Kyle Gunby

Kyle Gunby — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:47:37 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:05:56 +0000

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.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:48:50 +0000

bombastic is a good word for it

By: Robert D. Pore

Robert D. Pore — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:17:05 +0000

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.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:32:41 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:56:31 +0000

That's so crazy, I was just looking up art songs by Messiaen! Yeah, color up the wazoo.