Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement

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Loft
Release Date
November 11, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
    • PERFORMER
      Colin Andrews
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 11, 2016
    • UPC
      617145115225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LRCD-1152-53
    • LABEL
      Loft
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adoro te (I Adore Thee)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    2. II. La Source de Vie (The Source of Life)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    3. III. Le Dieu cache (The Hidden God)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    4. IV. Acte de Foi (Act of Faith)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    5. V. Puer natus est nobis (Unto Us a Child is Born)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    6. VI. La manne et le pain de Vie (Manna and the Bread of Life)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    7. VII. Les ressuscites et la lumiere de Vie (The Risen and the Light of Life)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    8. VIII. Institution de l'Eucharistie (Institution of the Eucharist)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    9. IX. Les ténèbres (The Darkness)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    10. X. La Réssurection du Christ (The Resurrection of Christ)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    11. XI. L'apparition du Christ ressuscite a Marie-Madeleine (The Risen Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    12. XII. La Transsubstantiation (The Transubstantiation)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    13. XIII. Les deux murailles d'eau (The Two Walls of Water)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    14. XIV. Prière avant la communion (Prayer Before Communion)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    15. XV. La joie de la grâce (The Joy of Grace)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    16. XVI. Prière après la communion (Prayer After Communion)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    17. XVII. La Présence multiplée (The Multiple Presence)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews

    18. XVIII. Offrande et alleluia final (Offering and Final Alleluia)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Colin Andrews


The “Livre du Saint Sacrement” is a summation of Messiaen’s musical and theological persona, a statement of faith and a profound summary of his entire organ “oeuvres.” In this work he employs the significant compositional techniques of his life’s work as an organ composer: modes of limited transposition as the basis for his harmonies, Hindu rhythms, Greek rhythms, plainsong, birdsong, “communicable language,” and serialism. As always these compositional elements are used to explore the mysteries of Christian faith, in this, his most massive work. Born in Avignon to Pierre Messiaen, a Shakespeare scholar, and the poet Cecile Sauvage, Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) exhibited a rare musical talent from an early age. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatory at age eleven, where he won five First Prizes- notably in classes with Marcel Dupre, Maurice Emmanuel, and Paul Dukas. In 1930, he was appointed Organiste Titulaire of Sainte Trinite Church in Paris, a position he held until the early 1970s. At the outbreak of WWII, he became a French army hospital attendance, and in 1941 was taken prisoner and held in a POW camp in Silesia (where he composed Quartet for the End of Time). Upon his repatriation in 1942, he was appointed professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory. During his lifetime, Messiaen was famed as an organist and pianist and frequently performed his own difficult compositions in concerts around the world. Colin Andrews is an internationally famous concert artist, with extensive experience in the music of Messiaen. One of only four organists to have recorded Messiaen’s complete organ works, Andrews was recently named “Membre d’Honneur” of the Association Grand Orgue Trinite Messiaen, based at Messiaen’s church in Paris.