Garden Of Love's Sleep (Jardin du sommeil d'amour)

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MESSIAEN
Garden Of Love's Sleep (Jardin du sommeil d'amour)
John Ogdon (piano) Luben Yordanoff (violin) Roger Muraro (piano) Olivier Latry (organ) / Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille / Myung-Whun Chung

[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 July 2008

To celebrate the composer's centenary year (2008) Deutsche Grammophon have brought together 8 slow, love-filled, tranquil or ecstatic movements from Messiaen's larger works such as the "Turangalila-Symphony", "From the Canyons to the Stars" and others.

To whet your appetites, here is a 1-CD midprice compilation of Messiaen's ecstatic slow movements: a sequence of eight movements from major works that together make an unforgettable impression: supple in rhythm, subtle in melody and incredibly rich in harmony. Almost like variations on a theme (with plenty of F sharp major too!), the 70-minute disc is uniquely relaxing and moving at the same time - by no means the usual pot-pourri compilation.

REPERTOIRE: Movements from the Turangalîla Symphony (title piece), the Quartet for the End of Time (violin and piano), Des Canyons aux étoiles and Éclairs sur l'Au-dela (orchestra), La transfiguration (chorus and orchestra), the Vingt regards (piano solo), and two individual works - Le Banquet céleste (organ solo), and the a cappella motet O sacrum convivium.

Tracks:

1. O sacrum convivium
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung

2. Garden of Love's Sleep from "Turangalila Symphony"
Yvonne Loriod (piano) & Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenot)
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung

3. Le baiser de L'Enfant-Jésus (from "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus")
John Ogdon (piano)

4. Abide in Love from "Eclairs sur l'au-dela"
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung

5. Louange a L'Immortalité de Jésus (from "Quatuor pour la fin du temps")
Luben Yordanoff (violin) & Daniel Barenboim (piano)

6. The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran (from "Des Canyons aux Étoiles")
Roger Muraro (piano) & Renaud Muzzolini (glockenspiel)
Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung

7. Chorale of the Holy Mountain from "La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ"
Chœur et Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung

8. Le Banquet Céleste
Olivier Latry (organ)