Olivier Messiaen

La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

Réveil des Oiseaux

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Awakening of the birds	21:11
1.2	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Gospel passage)	03:06
1.3	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ The form of his glorious body	06:56
1.4	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Christ Jesus, splendor of the father	07:44
1.5	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Gospel passage	02:36
1.6	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ How amiabel are thy tabernacles	10:29
1.7	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ The brightness of the everlasting light	03:40
1.8	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Chorale of the mountain of His holiness	01:34
2.1	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Gospel passage	03:33
2.2	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Being himself perfect, he understands the perfect generation	16:44
2.3	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Perfect Adoption	08:12
2.4	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Gospel passage	04:35
2.5	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ How dreadful is this place	06:49
2.6	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ The entire Holy Trinity appeared	16:46
2.7	La transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Chorale of the light of glory	06:58

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: SCM Hänssler
original title:: Die Verklärung unseres Herrn Jesus Christus/Das Erwachen der Vögel im Frühling
Art.-No.:: 093.078.000
: Doppel-CD
: 44 S. Booklet
Duration:: 2:01 hrs.
: September 2002
: *recommended retail price

La Transfiguration

As usual, Messiaen also wrote comments of his own on Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ: “Various aspects of the Mystery of the Transfiguration of Christ are presented
One after the other by a mosaic made up of Latin texts intentionally selected by the musician to serve as a basis for his meditations. The texts were taken primarily from the Gospels, then from other parts of the Scripture (Genesis, Psalms, the Wisdom of Solomon, the Epistles of Paul), finally from the missal and the Summa theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas.
The work is devided into two septenaria, that is to say, two groups of seven pieces. Each reading of fragments from the Gospel on the subject of transfiguration is followed by two pieces which go into the main ideas in more detail. Each septenarium ends with a chorale.”

Réveil des Oiseaux

Composed in 1952-53 (commissioned by SWF). Premiere at the Donaueschingen Music Festival on October 11, 1953 (conducted by Hans Rosbaud, soloist: Yvonne Loriod). Dedicated “to the memory of the writer and ornithologist Jacques Delamain. In honor of Yvonne Loriod, who has provided the fingering for piano part to this work and artistically played it. To the blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, orioles, robins, wood warblers, whitethroats and all the birds of our forests.”
According to the composer, “this score consists purely of birdsong. All were heard in the forest and are authentic. The instrumentalists should attempt to reproduce the calls and the timbre of the birds as closely as possible.”