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This is the improvisation played following the composer's pondering the registration at http://youtube.com/w atch?v=lX6Obr3Qkr4
This is the second improvisation from the now out-of-print DVD http://tinyurl.com/o ybus : "And the three kings had seen the Star of the Christ in the East and headed towards Nazareth."
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Messiaen was the organist at La Trinité Church in Paris for over 60 years, and both the organ and the church influenced his life and compositions.
We take a look inside the Organ room for the first time.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen discusses the music of Messiaen, and the influence certain pieces had on him as a performer and a composer.
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...selecting registration. Olivier Messiaen before playing one of his organ improvisations at Ste-Trinité church in Paris (where he was the organist for over 60 years).
This clip is from the DVD "Quartet for the End of Time/Improvisations" , see http://tinyurl.com/o ybus
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...from his "Quartet for the End of Time". It's from this DVD: http://tinyurl.com/o ybus
which is now out of print, unfortunately.
See also this page: http://tinyurl.com/2 awjsl
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http://www.annamyeon g.com
Anna Myeong plays the last piece (God among us) of Olivier Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur. The organ: Hellmuth Wolff (Opus. 40) in Bales Recital Hall, KU (Lawrence, Kansas).
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Marie-Claire Alain plays this 1935 Messiaen piece at the Hofkirche in Lucerne. This is a neo-classical tracker organ built 1972-77 by Orgelbau Kuhn AG. The disposition is listed at http://www.hoforgel- luzern.ch/dispositio n.htm
Rather imposing 32' pedal principals!
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ensemble s21
Jorge Montes, violín
Carlos García Amigo, violonchelo
Vicente López Puig, clarinete
Julio Mourenza, piano
01/IV/2008 | Santiago de Compostela
Auditorio do cGac
www.ensemble-s21. com
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Takashi Harada, Riccardo Chailly, and the Symphony Orchestra della Scala play Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphonie, 4th Movt "Love Song 2". Part 1 of 2.
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Yukio Yokoyama, Takashi Harada, Myung-Whun Chung, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra play Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphonie, 3rd Movt "Turangalîla 1". Live in Tokyo, January 24, 2007.