One of the most incredible modern master pieces of a mamuth Symphony ever written. Messiaen was another once in a lifetime genius bringing the music ahead in time!! Very French music. But what an incredible inventivnes and vitality this man had. Together with " Le Sacre du Printems " by Stravinsky , this piece is one of the times biggest and most difficult pieces ever written in the calssical world. Super Piece. And every instrument in the orchestra is equally important and busy. GREAT
I love that you can just FEEL the fatigue of the artists in that last movement, their sheer force of effort and concentration... I still get goosebumps every time I hear this symphony
Nobody brings out the absolute soul of this gorgeous and deeply moving piece like Chung. You can see his love for the piece as he conducts especially in the final chord
If I could "Love" a RU-vid video like one "Loves" a Facebook post, this would be the only of the many videos I watch time and again that would receive a little red heart by it. I'm so glad someone shared this concert with us. It is a treasure to me.
I. Introduction (1:03) II. Chant d’amour (7:31) III. Turangalîla I (15:38) IV. Chant d’amour 2 (20:38) V. Joie du Sang des Étoiles (31:16) VI. Jardin du Sommeil d’amour (37:50) VII. Turangalîla II (49:45) VIII. Développement d’amour (53:49) IX. Turangalîla III (1:05:45) X. Final (1:10:29)
This performance is so good that it really kind of messes with my head. Myung-Whun Chung was a student of Messiaen, and it shows to me, so much, like a direct transmission from the composer.
I had one of the most intense experiences of my life whilst playing this in my car. It was the grand climax in the 8th movement, when the theme is augmented. This is maybe the greatest climax in all music. And I was driving to a hospital to visit a relative and I knew that in that meeting she would receive a terminal diagnosis. You have the mix of the most potent grief and the most blinding ecstasy summarised there. And that's exactly what Messiaen wanted - I paraphrase him: a song of joy, not the joy of some happy man of the 18th century, but a joy that is limitless, blinding and can only be experienced in the midst of great sorrow. When Messiaen wrote this song of joy his wife was dying, and those poor people were being starved in the death camps. The existence of this work is one of the GREATEST MIRACLES. Truly up there with Beethoven. And to think of anyone not truly knowing this work for what it really is seems a terrible sorrow. Any time I hear this piece the ending with bring me into a paroxysm of tears.
Listening to this for the first time, I too was moved to tears at the end, and... even a chuckle when my misgivings about the finale, which at first seemed to be headed toward a comparatively trite orchestral cliche after such an incredible symphonic journey thus far, instead became an epic restatement of the sorrow, joy, imaginative genius, and grandeur throughout.
*reposting movement markers: 00:01:02 -1st mvt Introduction 00:07:30 -2nd mvt Chant d’amour (First Love Song) 00:15:37 -3rd mvt First Turangalîla 00:20:37 -4th mvt Chant d’amour 2 (Second Love Song) 00:31:15 -5th mvt Joie du Sang des Étoiles (Joy of the Blood of the Stars) 00:37:48 -6th mvt Jardin du Sommeil d’amour (Garden of Love’s Sleep) 00:49:45 -7th mvt Second Turangalîla 00:53:49 -8th mvt Développement d’amour (Development of Love) 01:05:44 -9th mvt Third Turangalîla 01:10:29 -10th mvt Finale Messiaen is love. Thank you very much!
Yesterday I heard from him his last symphony which is religious. This is all different and also amazing. Every work has its own style and goal. This is a passionate bleeding love- not a religious brotherly love like the lights from beyond I heard yesterday.
Brilliant performance! First heard this piece when I was about 16 (back in 1967). Started me taking an interest in music. Now as an 'oldish' chap I still never tire of Turangalila.
+Peter Lavington How do you get to know a piece like this? I mean I'm sure it takes tons of listenings, it's not easy music to absorb, and it's 80 minutes long! How do I get a foothold?
ilkinond Messiaen was all about symmetry. From a harmonic perspective, a lot of things he does can be thought about like expansions, contractions, and movements of symmetry. Also, just because two things are going on at the same time does not mean they are part of the same event. Sometimes the strings aren't paying any attention to the winds and vice versa, for example.The fact that they are playing simultaneously does have significance, but you have to notice that they're different things entirely, and take them on individually before you can figure out why they're together. It's kind of like nature. If you went outside, you might hear a bird's chirp, a car's engine, the buzz of a cicada. All those sounds mean something individually; they mean that a bird is singing, a car is being driven, and a cicada is buzzing. But together they combine to give you the collective message that you are, in fact, in the world. To me, at least, Messiaen's music is kind of like that. It's a starting point at least.
@@ilkinond I would suggest a good place to start would be to learn the slow love-song melody in the 6th movement which begins at 37:50. Then once you can hum along with that melody and maybe even know the main parts of it from memory, you will be amazed to see it come back again triumphantly in a faster tempo in the last movement of the whole symphony. Then start looking for all the other passages that make repeat appearances too. This piece just gets better and better the more years you know it :-)
Ich bin verklempt. I've known (and played) a lot of Messiaen over the years, but tonight I'm hearing this symphony for the first time, and I'm speechless.
Beautiful, exhilarating, mesmerising and utterly exciting beyond words, Messiaen tickling our emotions in many wonderful ways with this phenomenal symphony with one of the best performances i have heard so far.
Ecouter la "Turangalila", c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Dans le courant du fleuve des notes qui nous traverse, le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers impalpable. Couleurs, composition, rythme, constituent un langage qui donne véritablement voix à l'exaltation !
Shivers down my spine as always when I hear the magnum opus and this is a spectacularly brilliant performance. I've been lucky to hear it live twice, once with Yvonne Loriod (Messiaen's wife at the Ondes Martenot) and Messiaen present (during the standing ovation afterwards he was rather shy to come to the podium). Such a master piece.
The best and most hair-raising recording of Turangalila-Symphonie that I've ever heard in RU-vid! It really captures the drama and emotions Messiaen wanted to evoke in this piece. The ondes Martenot and the lively percussions did their part, especially the conductor...
I agree with those of you who call this symphony a masterpiece This is an excellent performence Messiaen inspired the music of Pierre Jansen which can be heard in Rupture the film directed by Claude Chabrol
Que belleza de trabajo !!! Felicitaciones al compositor que obvio ya no está, al Director excelente ! y los músicos maravillosos, aunque el Tubular Bells tuvo segundos de destiempo. Igualmente maravilloso todo !
I l-o-v-e Turangalila!!! I found it so credible and relevant! It explored the true answer to the empty question: What's love got to do with it? Answer: EVERYTHING! The entire program was so complete and so filling and uplifting. I am going to write something to share with my CSO colleagues.
im going to a concert : op 11 from chopin and this one but im planning on leaving after the first concerto because I dont understand how this is beautiful or enjoyable ( I fast forwarded and listened to a couple of segments and I cringed really bad )
This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE RU-vid video OF ALL TIME! When I'm down, I'll pull up this and listen to its epic awesomeness. Thank you for having it up here! Also, I just wanted to note the excitement on the percussionist's face at 8:10 -- He's really ready to hit those chimes!!!
I am preparing myself for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's performance, with guest conductor Esa -Pekka Salonene tonight.We have Jean Yves Thibaudet at the piano and Valerie Hartmann-Claverie at Ondes Martenot. I am so grateful for the workshop that Creative Director Gerard McBurney gave to our CSO staff in June of 2014. :)
@@crazyorganist1609 It's a thing of pure bliss. His Deutsche Grammophon recoding of Turangalîla is amongst my favorites in my collection of albums, fantastic stuff
This really was a great performance of this. Impeccable for being a live recording. Chung glides through it masterfully. Nobody even looked tired. They were all in the zone.
Le thème-fleur est inécoutable. Beaucoup de clarté dans la texture orchestrale, impression d'entendre tous les timbres. Le piano n'est pas si concertant que cela, il est souvent couvert. Quelle richesse, que de superpositions !
I came here after reading, in an obituary for recently-deceased Pierre Boulez, that this work by his one-time mentor/tutor, Messiaen, made Boulez "want to vomit". Well, Pierre B. did like to be very cussed and contraversial much of the time. Truth is, I actually really enjoyed this piece! As I've never explored Messiaen before, I must do the rounds of what RU-vid has to offer from his _oeuvre_ .
+Humboles Mr. Boulez wasn't right in all his judgements, you know. I think it's far more important not to drink too much before visiting the Turangalila in the concert hall.
I find it utterly amazing that any orchestra would even attempt this mammoth work. Thank you for posting it! Messiaen is such a strange and mystical genius, and is therefore impossible to pigeonhole, which he would have liked to hear. It's also heartening to know that an audience would sit through such a lengthy and challenging (yet enjoyable!) work.
Beethoven, en sus últimos años, dijo a su secretario y discípulo Schindler que "la chispa divina" estaba en Schubert. La chispa tiene un nuevo destello en Messiaen
I don't thnk that was ever confirmed, but it feels way too similar to be a coincidence. Anyway, she's likely named after this symphony even if we don't know for sure, at the very least, I like to think so.
LOVE Messiaen! LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE!...I have always loved Turingalila, but who am I to judge? Army transport NCO and 'Big Rig' driver who became an advertising copywriter, Military Historian, Motorcycle Racer and Cellist who became sponsor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra. I guess that when you think about it...it was a perfect 'mix' for me!
I think this piece may have topped The Rite Of Spring, but it wasn't as culturally recognised. Like the Rite, it certainly opened the musical landscape again, this time giving us an alien love story rather than an ancient Russian sacrifice!
I don't know about topping The Rite of Spring, but I agree that it's one of a very small handful of compositions that can be talked about alongside the Rite. This is a brilliant work, one of the greatest of them all.
Solomon Ge the rite of spring isn't the height of musical and orchestral development you know but it is definitely an important work (that is a real earworm too)
I think it was clear initially. Then marketing kicked in. Now real chicken is not as tasty as chicken flavoured crisps. And industrial noise is called a symphony. When you listen to it would you spot a false note?
What a masterwork. I heard only a part of this great symphony on my local classical station and am glad to have found it in its entirety. Thanks for sharing.
I came here because this is Johnny Greenwood's favorite piece of music. Absolutely beautiful. Now i know where he got influences to his acclaimed There Will Be Blood soundtrack.
This is my first time hearing this wonderful piece of music. I believe the bar has been set very high with this riveting, tight, sensitive, emotional experience. The next time I see a local symphony attempt this, I am going to the concert. Bravo! Thank you for posting this.
Messiaen is love. Thanks! 00:01:02 -1st mvt Introduction 00:07:30 -2nd mvt Chant d’amour (First Love Song) 00:15:37 -3rd mvt First Turangalîla 00:20:37 -4th mvt Chant d’amour 2 (Second Love Song) 00:31:15 -5th mvt Joie du Sang des Étoiles (Joy of the Blood of the Stars) 00:37:48 -6th mvt Jardin du Sommeil d’amour (Garden of Love’s Sleep) 00:49:45 -7th mvt Second Turangalîla 00:53:49 -8th mvt Développement d’amour (Development of Love) 01:05:44 -9th mvt Third Turangalîla 01:10:29 -10th mvt Finale
This is one of those pieces which absolutely must be experienced live. I just got the chance with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the piano and Cynthia Millar at the ondes Martenot. It was very memorable, and the capacity crowd at Benaroya Hall absolutely ate it up. I must say, it wasn't as intense of a performance as the one in this video (few can match Myung-Whun Chung for Messiaen), but it was still awesome, and I had a birds-eye view of JYT
@@crazyorganist1609 Well, I don't actually agree with you (and I know you meant "conductor"). In fact, other than Chung's rendition of Turangalila, which was recorded with Messiaen's personal involvement, I find his other renditions more or less unlistenable. His Des Canyons aux Etoiles is decent (but still not as good as the Salonen rendition), but his La Transfiguration is a hot mess. He excels at orchestral colour, but his rhythmic sense is all off, and he seems to be afraid of gongs. The Dorati rendition of La Transfiguration is simply amazing, and very very musical. The Chung version sounds like a different piece, and not in a good way. Just compare the first two minutes of the third movement to see what I mean.
It's beautiful, while simultaneously being full of disturbing dissonance. It's like a piece that has everything I want in music, but even it's most romantic and gorgeous passages are full of the dissonance I mentioned above. Half the time, I don't really like the piece, but the other half of the time, I absolutely love it. And that final chord!
My first experience is by Kazushi Oono and Tokyo metropolitan orchestra. Then I started to be interested in this music. So,I want to study about this and telling all over the world.
Esta es una hermosa obra a través de la cual descubro un concepto, el diseño, obra de la línea, del movimiento, del trazo y el fraseo, la respiración, el color. De la misma manera que algún conductor de programa me iluminó y me hizo descubrir, en La Consagración de la Primavera, el montaje inventado por Einsenstein, aquí descubro el diseño!!!
