OLIVIER MESSIAEN Turangalila Symphone VEGA records Avant Garde NM 2x LP 10" BOX
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Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila SymphoneVega/Accord (cat # VAL.27) A very nice copy of this rare and collectable Vega label (VAL 127) original stereo French pressing 2 X 12'' (the symphony) + 1 X 10'' (interview of Messiaen) from 1962. The box is EX and the records are NEAR MINT.
Original 1962 recording supervised by Messiaen. This is a very interesting box set of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphone released in 1962 by Vega/Accord (cat# VAL.27). This is the 3rd recording of this music piece but the 1st supervised by Messiaen himself. The red linen box contains two 12" records, one 10" interview record and a booklet. The featured performers are Yvonne Loriod, piano and Jeanne Loriod, nodes martinet. The conductor is Maurice le Roux leading the Orchestre National de la R.T.F..
The Turangalîla-Symphonie is a large-scale piece of orchestral music by Olivier Messiaen. It was written from 1946 to 1948, on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The premiere was given by that orchestra on December 2, 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston. The commission did not specify the duration, orchestral requirements or style of the piece, leaving the decisions up to the composer. Koussevitzky was billed to conduct the premiere but fell ill and the task was then given to the young Bernstein. Yvonne Loriod, who later became Messiaen's second wife, was the piano soloist and Ginette Martenot played ondes Martenot for the first and several subsequent performances. From 1953, Yvonne's sister Jeanne Loriod was the ondes Martenot player in many performances and recordings. While most of Messiaen's compositions are religious in inspiration, at the time of writing the symphony the composer was fascinated by the myth of Tristan and Isolde, and the Turangalîla Symphony forms the central work in his trilogy of compositions concerned with the themes of romantic love and death — the other pieces are Harawi for piano with soprano and Cinq rechants for unaccompanied choir. It is considered a 20th century masterpiece and a typical performance runs around 80 minutes in length. When asked about the meaning of the work's duration in its ten movements and the reason for the use of the ondes Martenot, Messiaen simply replied, "It's a love song." The title of the work, and those of its movements, were a late addition to the project. They were first described by Messiaen in a diary entry in early 1948. He derived the title from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, which roughly translate into English as "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death" and described the joy of Turangalîla as "superhuman, overflowing, dazzling and abandoned". Messiaen revised the work in 1990. ( wiki )
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