Messiaen: Meditations sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite / Winpenny

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 9, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
    • PERFORMER
      Tom Winpenny
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 09, 2019
    • UPC
      747313397976
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573979
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Le Père inengendré (The Father unbegotten)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    2. II. La Sainteté de Jésus-Christ (The holiness of Jesus Christ)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    3. III. La Relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l'Essence (The genuine relation in God is truly identical to his essence)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    4. IV. Je suis, je suis! (I am, I am!)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    5. V. Dieu est immense, éternel, immuable - Le souffle de l'Esprit - Dieu est Amour (God is immense, eternal, unchanging - The Breath of the Spirit - God is Love)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    6. VI. Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière (The Son, Word and Light)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    7. VII. Le Père et le Fils aiment, par le Saint-Esprit, eux-mêmes et nous (The Father and the Son love themselves and us through the Holy Spirit)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    8. VIII. Dieu est simple (God is unique)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny

    9. IX. Je suis Celui qui suis (I am that I am)

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Tom Winpenny


Olivier Messiaen’s Meditations sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite grew out of improvisations that he performed at the inauguration of the rebuilt organ of La Trinite in 1967. It became his largest cycle to date and marks Messiaen’s first use of ‘communicable language,’ in which each letter of the alphabet is assigned a unique pitch and note value, thereby translating text into music. Haunting harmonies, awe-inspiring monumental grandeur and the deepest profundity of expression are contrasted by the innocence of birdsong with the recurrent call of the yellowhammer, a tranquil voice from nature amid kaleidoscopic Biblical themes.