Olivier MESSIAEN - Turangalila Symphone - VEGA records (Val 27) Avant Garde LP

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Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphone Vega/Accord (cat # VAL.27)
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 beautiful 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 vinyl is stellar with no marks or scratches and looks to have only been played a few times. The booklet binding has come undone but all of the pages are intact. The box has some minor corner/edge wear but that is normal for a record set of this age. Please have a look at the photos!!!

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  Turangalila Symphonie A1 Introduction A2 Chant D'Amour I A3 Turangalila I B1 Chant D'Amour II B2 Joie Du Sang Des Étoiles C1 Jardin Du Sommeil D'Amour C2 Turangalila II D1 Développement De L'Amour D2 Turangalila III D3 Final   Entretien Avec Olivier Messiaen Par Claude Samuel E Entretien Avec Olivier Messiaen Interviewee – Olivier MessiaenInterviewer – Claude Samuel F Entretien Avec Olivier Messiaen Interviewee – Olivier MessiaenInterviewer – Claude Samuel
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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