Olivier Messiaen, "Liturgie de cristal" Videos

JanPB Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Purrrrrr....The ending has a nice moment: the camera pans across the audience and there is this little girl asleep very comfortably in peacefully in his applauding father's arms (or is it father's applauding arms?)

wbarco Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - :P i think they both work fine. I'm not a stickler for grammar. :> It's a shame there isn't more 20th century music on YouTube. P.S. Would asking to upload Louange a l'Eterite de Jesus be too much to ask for? :P

JanPB Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Video quality suffered a bit to squeeze it under 100MB but the sound is good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-GwxyJ2ZY

lilamagritte Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Gracias.

razraini Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - do u have praise to the immortality of jesus at all? that one's my fav!

lokoko020 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - why dont u upload all the quartet?? that would me fuckin' awesome

nineteensixtyseven Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Thanks!!!!

DJPsionix Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Depends whether the arms liked the show more than the father. O_o=)Thanks for posting the video, by the way :)

ukrainik Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Does anyone have Abyss of the Birds?PLEEEEEEEASE

patriciofmolinak Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - thank you

thiri1902 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Perfeito!!! Genialíssimo compositor!!!

ChopinARG Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - This is horrible, this isn't music, this is only noise, How can anybody to compose this? I miss you Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninov, I MISS YOU! Thanks to God they can't to hear this

Rinhos Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - this is only noise??? oh my gosh.....Rachmaninov cleans the shoes of Messiaen

ChopinARG Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - "jaja" you clean your mouth before to talk about Rachmaninov. Messiaen, Schoenberg, Berg, Dallapiccola, Von Weber THEY SUCKS!!!!!

alvinkuo777 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Messiaen wishes his music was as good as Rachmaninov's music. As much as I like this quartet and other works, they are only brain-ticklers. A lot of post-modern works work only for the head, but not for the "heart," a.k.a stirring up feeling from the soul.

kartoonstew Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - ChopinARG,With all due respect, you will realize the lack of understanding that your comment portrays as time passes. The quartet for the end of time is indeed one of the 20th century's great masterpieces of art, though it does require the listener to expand his or her definition of what one EXPECTS music to be, but even still, this music is quite time compared to many other pieces of music. It is quite an incredible work.

kartoonstew Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Quite *tame* (not time) compared to other pieces of music

TSEliot666 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - I don't understand why people keep having such a narrowminded view of art, and just can't see the bigger picture. And this piece btw does a lot for my "soul" as it has been a favourite since I just started to take my first steps in Classical music. But other pieces as well, like for instance Ligeti's. They are able to invoke a different type of emotion or reaction, more suited to our modern age, I think. You just have to keep an open mind and be prepared to really listen.

jrk3150 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - Didn't Messaien write this while being held in a prison camp by the Nazis? It's a remarkable, strange, ethereal work, and it makes sense that it sounds nothing like the lush work of Romantic or post-Romantic composers. It's spiritual in a profound way--the thin elusiveness of the texture, of these birds just out of reach, this "Crystal Liturgy," is almost like the spirit hovering just out of reach, but still perceptible.

RimeofAncientMariner Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - jrk3150 -- yep; in fact, it was first performed in that camp (as the opening to this video notes). And Messiaen was a devout Catholic who wrote his music out of, and infused it with, his deep Catholic spirituality.

AlNissin Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - My english is not very well. Do you have a video of "les offrandes oubliées?

BlindObedienceBrutal Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - This is a wonderful performance. In general I am very picky about the clarinet part but I find this to be very well done.

darkprose Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - This is not a personal comment on you, alvinkuo777, but I find it so hard to believe that this work only tickles the brain. It is, in all of its theological glory, musical christology. It is the music of redemption and incarnation. Have you listened to "Louange à l'éternité de Jésus"? This reaches, I believe, as I am an atheist, the closest experience of transcendence I have encountered. Save Mahler, perhaps.

pavlus2 Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - i like the pianist at 2:27-2:38. he's like:"WTF IS WRITTEN HERE? better not to ask, just play..";)

floorembden Says:

Jul 26, 2008 - exploration de couleurs et de formes nouvelles dès 1941 ! Prolongement et illustration des chemins de Messiaen sur le web : "site du partenariat radio classique messiaen" - (ouvrez la 2ème entrée pour lire le texte en supplément): une classe d'élèves de première explore très sensiblement cet univers singulier