Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité

I cannot help feeling that the well-travelled Messiaen would have approved of the Klais organ in the Icelandic capital. It renders all the colours with forthright clarity and an atmospheric resonance... — Choir & Organ, November 2019, More…

Release Date: 9th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: 8573979
Label: Naxos
Length: 74 minutes

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Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité

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Tom Winpenny (organ)

I. Le Père inengendré

9:00

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II. La sainteté de Jésus-Christ

10:58

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III. La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l'essence

2:57

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IV. Je suis, je suis!

6:35

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V. Dieu est immense, éternel, immuable - Le souffle de l'Esprit - Dieu est Amour

10:47

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VI. Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière

8:04

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VII. Le Père et le Fils aiment, par le Saint Esprit, eux-mêmes et nous

6:25

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VIII. Dieu est simple

8:55

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IX. Je suis Celui qui suis

10:42

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Olivier Messiaens Méditation's sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité grew out of improvisations that he performed at the inauguration of the rebuilt organ of La Trinité in 1967. It became his largest cycle to date and marks Messiaens 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.

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November 2019

I cannot help feeling that the well-travelled Messiaen would have approved of the Klais organ in the Icelandic capital. It renders all the colours with forthright clarity and an atmospheric resonance heightened by Winpenny’s thoughtful pacing. Rounded offwith Winpenny’s well-judged sleeve notes, this series of Messiaen recordings just gets better and better.

November 2019

When improvising after a service, Messiaen would shout out the scriptural subject from the organ loft at SaintTrinité...Tom Winpenny brings the composer’s voice to mind, thundering out the main theme with the kind of austere, plain-spoken grandeur common to his opening gambits...Winpenny’s choice of the Klais organ in the airy acoustic of Reykjavík’s Lutheran church seems admirably suited to Messiaen’s abrupt juxtapositions.

November 2019

The latest in Tom Winpenny’s Messiaen series offers a commanding performance on a splendid instrument.

Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité

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