Messiaen - Les Offrandes oubliees, Poemes pour Mi, Chronochromie | Orfeo C250131

Messiaen - Les Offrandes oubliees, Poemes pour Mi, Chronochromie

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Label: Orfeo

Cat No: C250131

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st July 2022

Contents

Artists

Sarah Leonard (soprano)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Michael Gielen

Works

Messiaen, Olivier

Chronochromie for large orchestra
Les Offrandes oubliees
Poemes pour Mi

Artists

Sarah Leonard (soprano)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Michael Gielen

About

The fifth instalment in Orfeo’s Michael Gielen / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra series.

What makes Olivier Messiaen’s oeuvre so special is largely his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations and convictions into a wholly individual and perfectly coherent musical language. This includes the development of modal harmonies from earlier centuries and engagement with rhythms from non-European traditions. The wealth of colour in Messiaen’s works stems in part from his synaesthetic ability to perceive chords as various shapes and colours. As an enthusiastic ornithologist, he spent much time in nature, notating bird songs and then working them in stylised form into his compositions. But most importantly, Messiaen’s work is governed by his profound faith. He once said that he didn’t primarily see himself as a composer but as an “ornithologist and rhythmist.”

Recorded in 1991 and 1996, remastered from original ORF archive tapes.

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