Olivier Messiaen, Sylvain Cambreling, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Fr

Eclairs sur l´Au-dela Les Offrandes oublièes

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Apparition du Christ glorieux	07:26
1.2	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá La constellation du Sagittaire	06:47
1.3	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá L'Oiseau-Lyre et la Ville-Fiancée	04:09
1.4	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Les élus marqués du sceau	02:02
1.5	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Demeurer dans I'Amour...	14:48
1.6	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Les sept Anges aux sept trompettes	06:32
1.7	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Et Dieu essuiera toute larme de leurs yeux...	04:17
1.8	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Les étoiles et la Gloire	11:44
1.9	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Plusieurs oiseaux des arbres de Vie	03:08
1.10	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Le chemin de I'Invisible	03:19
1.11	Éclairs sur I' Au-delá Le Christ, lumiére du Paradis	11:06

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: SCM Hänssler
Art.-No.:: 093.063.000
: Compact Disc
: 40 S. Booklet
Duration:: 1:10 hrs.
: April 2003
: *recommended retail price

This last composition of Olivier Messiaen was commissioned by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for its 150th anniversary. Messiaen wrote and orchestrated the composition between 1987 and 1991 (the New York premiere was on November 5, 1992). It consits of a series of meditations on the hereafter and heavenly Jerusalem, taken primarely from Revelation of St. John, since six of the total of eleven pieces are based on quotations from Chapters 1, 7, 21, and 22. In addition, the Gospel according to St. John, Matthew and Luke, as well as the first Epistle of John inspired nos 5, 7, 8, and 10 and the Book of Daniel no. 2

Christ is not the only one constantly present in these meditations, however, but also the heavenly bodies, the stars, the colors of the precious stones of heavenly Jerusalem, and birds.

The inner peace of the mystic, the peace of his soul already presaged here on Earth in the radiant kindliness of God – „in the sunlit peace of divine love“ (as the composer entitled the second part of his organ work Le compat de la mort et la vie as early as 1939); the setting to this title is Movement 4, the heart of the cycle Les corps glorieux – the layering of tonal colors, hundreds of chords in the style typical of Messiaen.