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
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.
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
If I could "Love" a UA-cam 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.
*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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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)
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 !
The best and most hair-raising recording of Turangalila-Symphonie that I've ever heard in UA-cam! 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 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 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.
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.
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 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. :)
This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE UA-cam 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 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 UA-cam 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.
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 !
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.
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
@@WelshHomo87 It's a thing of pure bliss. His Deutsche Grammophon recoding of Turangalîla is amongst my favorites in my collection of albums, fantastic stuff
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?
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 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.
First time hearing this work, though I'd read of it often because I've been fascinated with Messiaen for a while. Beautifully shot orchestra and a massive undertaking!
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.
i had to hold onto my desk at 19 mins. this is a work of genius. I love how musicians lay-listener, are both split between loving and hating this music.
This is an astonishingly good performance of Turangalila. It is superior to Chung's recording from 1992 (which is still very good) -- more dynamic, and with perfect clarity -- nothing sounds forced or rushed, the rhythms are really "in the pocket". Plus, Roger Muraro really shines here -- he really attacks this music (much more so than, say, Jean Yves Thibaudet, who is much more subdued). I felt that Yvonne Loriod was a little too far down in the mix on the recording. Maestro Chung seems to have developed a real comfort and rapport with this music. The ondes Martenot is also well up in the mix here, which is refreshing, as it can be a little suppressed in some performances, and it is so central to the piece.
docsketchy, I agree with everything you said. This is the best performance of the piece I have ever heard. I think both Loriods were a little too far down on the 1992 mix. (I'm going to see a performance of Turangalila tonight by the Julliard orchestra. Can't wait.)
The visual production in this was well thought out; it highlights a great piece of music that I think those who don't know Messiaen would easily be drawn in by. I've been a fan since the early '70's, when I heard this on the local NPR college affiliate radio station. It was the first piece of his I'd ever heard, and it was SO different to my ears it was like a symphony from another planet. Of course now I understand whence came his musical inspirations, but I still get the same buzz whenever I hear it; and this presentation is exemplary. Of course we all know Myung-Whun Chung from the studio recording, along with the master and his wife.
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!!!
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!
Amazing! I like this version way more than the CD with Yvonne Loriod I just received. It's all very accurate concerning rhythm and phrasing! Great music! Thanks a lot for posting this!
There is an recording from 2004 with the same conductor, on Deutsche Grammophon, which unfortunately doesn't come any close to this splendid performance - maybe it is the sound of the recording or something different, because this is absolutely wonderful! I hope they would release this performance on CD.
The camera work makes me feel like I'm watching an action movie, amazing!
The camera man and its editor must have studied the score very well. It corresponds to music very well.
Case
These directors are musicians
thank you master Messiaen for your great music-
The most beautiful symphony of the 20th century!!
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
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.
I. 1:03 / II. 7:31 / III. 15:38 / IV. 20:38 / V. 31:16 / VI. 37:50 / VII. 49:45 / VIII. 53:49 / IX. 1:05:45 / X. 1:10:29
Many Thanks ! :-)
Merci chant d'amour j'adore
Sihyeon Choe grazie
Merci Sihyeon Choe, thanks
Thank you so much !!! 😭
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
If I could "Love" a UA-cam 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.
*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!
GRACIAS
I have listened to this piece many times here - without scrolling down to see the movements. Thanks Very Much for this Post!
Thank you !!!
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.
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.
Turangalila. Absolutely bonkers. And I love it!
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.
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.
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.
Stunning - wonderful - weird - marvelous - dynamic - this is as good as modern music and music videos gets. Thanks for posting this!!!
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 Just listen.
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 :-)
Boston Symphony performs in April 2024. Scored two tickets, We are going!
One of the best orchestral videos on YT.
the videography really is great! heartily agreed!
Merci ARTE France. Sublime
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)
Thank you!
This is certainly Messiaen's finest and most accessible work for large orchestra JMHO!
I has taken me about 5 full listenings to begin to really appreciate this amazing work - Truly amazing... Love it!
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 !
The best and most hair-raising recording of Turangalila-Symphonie that I've ever heard in UA-cam! 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...
Just saw this in Nashville last night with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and it was INCREDIBLE.
Música compleja, no apta para oídos vulgares.
He dado mi "like". ¡¡Me gusta!!
Gracias desde México.
Bravo!! I repeat myself, but UA-cam won't let me "like" it twice. Bravo!
I love this symphony. I have listened to a few different recordings and this is by far the best one that I have listen to. Just my opinion.
I thought I knew what a symphony is. Not anymore. I suppose gardener with a chainsaw is playing a symphony?
@@kvlebedev My man, I see you don't study composition, or do you?
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.
+Sheila Jones This must have been so amazing when heard live!
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 )
One of the great pieces off 20th century music.
one of the grate pisses off 20th century music
Nick Ashton-Jones mozart mozart mozart mozart
That's what makes it great! But you need a sense of humour
absolutely stunning peice of music, it suckers you in then you cant stop listening through intrigue of whats next
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.
Beautiful performance and wonderfully filmed. Thank you for uploading.
The absolute sense of wonderment this piece has just evoqued will last me for a lifetime. Totally enthralled by the Martenot Waver.
Great, great performance - wow!!! I know this work very well and doesn't come any better than this!!!
I love Debussy and this is just a gift for my brain too, thank you, much humble blooming honey.
+Aghora Nath yes.
Masterpiece! The shooting of the video is also great, just like watching a film.
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.
che incredibile capolavoro! Ricco di energia e vitalità, esplosivo!
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 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. :)
Sheila Jones I was at the performance last night, it was incredible. Syrinx was also absolutely flawless and set the tone for the evening
This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE UA-cam 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 couldnt agree nore!!!
I couldnt agree MORE!!!!!!!!
8:10
The greatest of modern symphonies. The Ondes playing is performing from memory!
Divine. Ipayed my respect to this master in my Piano Concerto (24‘15“).
my first listening to Messiaen's Turangalila,is this one...I'm going to give one more shot,I liked it.
Futurama Brought me here. Astonishing Music.
I just got the reference , from a long time fan of the show and Messiean . Shame on me .
I've long been a fan of Messiaen and Futurama and only saw the connection recently :)
Me too
Can you be a fan of noise?
Loveeee!!! infinite!!!
Beautiful Sounds! Messiaen!
I hear a little Jonny Greenwood in there! Rather, I hear Turangalila in Greenwood's scores. Fantastic!
When Greenwood was a teen he loved this symphony. I hear it in his work too!
Yes, I also saw it,Roger Muraro is the pianist
14:25
That's why the Ondes Martenot are my favorite instrument
Great fun. This composer always keeps life fresh!
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 UA-cam 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.
Never tire of hearing this piece.
Thank you for posting this. Brilliant performance of a brilliant piece.
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 !
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.
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
Positively amazing. Wonderful. It is actually exciting.
I on the radio, heard a long time ago this symphony.
Thank you for uploading video.
The only good - very good- performance of this great piece on YT. The final chords of part 5 and 10 have their length to make a mindblowing crescendo!
Génial. Merci de cette mise en ligne.
Magnífico!! Maravilloso!!! Bravooo!!
That the was the LONGEST finale fermata I've ever heard in my entire life! o_O BRAVOOOOO!!
It's supposed to be. No one does Messiaen like Chung
@@WelshHomo87 It's a thing of pure bliss. His Deutsche Grammophon recoding of Turangalîla is amongst my favorites in my collection of albums, fantastic stuff
"Bittersweet" is the best word to define this strange but beautiful music. And yes, Futurama brought me here too...
One person that I’ll dedicate this to is Leela’s voice actress Katey Sagal.
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!
the piano was wonderful, I loved it all!!
¡ Bravo al orquesta, bravo y muchas gracias a los Maestros Chung y Hartmann, gran expresión y logro !!!!
The best uploaded performance ever!
Yes, she plays by heart almost always. She's the best. Saw her here in São Paulo, amazing.
ASOMBROSO que la ondista esté tocando toda la sinfonía de MEMORIA!!!
So goooood!!!! Glad I came across this!!!
Una clara unión de los contrarios en la armonía, especialmente en el piano...Messiaen Great Maestro!
Not heard this since 1973. Bloody marvellous... going to get the cd. Thank you ( and visuals are great, terrific photography and editing.
A great performance. Needless to say, this work is so incredible!
now i know whats inspired futurama's turanga leela
+Shawn Rishwan Yeah. Also my reason for checking this masterpiece out. Futurama! :)
What about zoidberg
It's an old Latin word meaning Space Jew.
John Zoidberg I had to read that in your voice... Lmao
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.
For me, nothing tops the Rite of Spring but this is definitely up there for my favorite pieces.
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?
@@kvlebedev Fans of the avant-garde would eat poop if a famous top chef told them it was better than steak.
Incredibly beautiful!
That was mind blowing. Loved it.
Amazing playing, the maestro is full of confidence in a tricky trapping dangerous piece!! Best version I saw for it!! TURANGALILA forever
Oh my gosh... the WHOLE THING. I've been looking for this for ages...
The 5th movement (Joie du Sang des Etoiles) is the most sublimely mad, deliciously erotic, mystical paean to the cosmos in the history of music!
( - : exquisitely said : - )
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
Superb!! Thank you OM and YT
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.
First time hearing this work, though I'd read of it often because I've been fascinated with Messiaen for a while. Beautifully shot orchestra and a massive undertaking!
I loved watching Valérie Hartmann Claverie on the Ondes Martenot. She was so placid and calm throughout the piece. Wonderful musicality.
è proprio vero, la musica di Olivier Messiaen è la musica dei colori!
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.
The filming is quite amazing - as artistic as the music and performance!
music dont get much more intense than that! Bravo... wonderful.
i had to hold onto my desk at 19 mins. this is a work of genius. I love how musicians lay-listener, are both split between loving and hating this music.
This is an astonishingly good performance of Turangalila. It is superior to Chung's recording from 1992 (which is still very good) -- more dynamic, and with perfect clarity -- nothing sounds forced or rushed, the rhythms are really "in the pocket". Plus, Roger Muraro really shines here -- he really attacks this music (much more so than, say, Jean Yves Thibaudet, who is much more subdued). I felt that Yvonne Loriod was a little too far down in the mix on the recording. Maestro Chung seems to have developed a real comfort and rapport with this music. The ondes Martenot is also well up in the mix here, which is refreshing, as it can be a little suppressed in some performances, and it is so central to the piece.
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docsketchy, I agree with everything you said. This is the best performance of the piece I have ever heard. I think both Loriods were a little too far down on the 1992 mix. (I'm going to see a performance of Turangalila tonight by the Julliard orchestra. Can't wait.)
The visual production in this was well thought out; it highlights a great piece of music that I think those who don't know Messiaen would easily be drawn in by. I've been a fan since the early '70's, when I heard this on the local NPR college affiliate radio station. It was the first piece of his I'd ever heard, and it was SO different to my ears it was like a symphony from another planet. Of course now I understand whence came his musical inspirations, but I still get the same buzz whenever I hear it; and this presentation is exemplary. Of course we all know Myung-Whun Chung from the studio recording, along with the master and his wife.
well it is my dream to play it. who knows, maybe one day. love it
This is excessively beautiful.
The last chord: 38 seconds!!!
@Coltin Anderson 1:17:35-1:18:13 Goooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! then done.
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!!!
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!
Amazing! I like this version way more than the CD with Yvonne Loriod I just received. It's all very accurate concerning rhythm and phrasing! Great music! Thanks a lot for posting this!
I personally love the Simon Rattle recording a lot
Am I the only one in the world who likes to whistle along with the piccolo in Chant d'Amour II when alone in the car? ;)
Me too, and also much of the ondes part
😂wonderful
There is an recording from 2004 with the same conductor, on Deutsche Grammophon, which unfortunately doesn't come any close to this splendid performance - maybe it is the sound of the recording or something different, because this is absolutely wonderful! I hope they would release this performance on CD.
Nah Paris Opera orchestra was more soft edge than in this video . Favorite is still the crazy Chailly recording on Decca .