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Olivier Messiaen – Fete des Belles Eaux (2008)
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19 Jan 2012 02:33:03
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Olivier Messiaen – Fete des Belles Eaux (2008)
Classical/Early 20th Century | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 55m17s | 216mb
Label: ATMA | cat. no. ACD 2 2621
| “ | FETE DES BELLES EAUX The year was 1937. In addition to the magnificent exposition attended by visitors from around the world, the city of Paris had organized a festival of sound, water, and light. Once darkness had fallen, the river Seine became the setting for spectacular audio-visual performances in which fireworks in the sky were mirrored by jets of water combined with the harmonies of symphonic music. To provide background music for these displays, the city of Paris commissioned twenty works from twenty different composers. I was one of the 20 composers selected. While my colleagues settled for orchestral, choral, or chamber music configurations, I opted for a sextet of Ondes Martenot. Since the music was, in any case, to be amplified by loudspeakers placed on all the buildings lining the Seine, the Onde Martenot seemed a marvelously apt choice for these outdoor performances. Specialized architects brought me elaborate plans, with detailed timing indications for the various parts of the display that had been allocated to me. The form and the sounds of the work were thus absolutely dependent on the imposed divisions and timings. The music reflects the mystery of the night, the fune-real aspect of the deep water, and the joyous, playful, carefree character of the fireworks. The jets of water, by contrast, seemed to me to be either fierce and terrible, or dreamlike and contemplative. It is this last mood that predominates, and in the most worthwhile moments of Fetes des Belles Eaux—when, on two occasions, the jets of water shoot up to a great height—a long, slow phrase is heard, almost a prayer; this turns the water into a symbol of grace and eternity, as in the words from the gospel according to Saint John: "Anyone who drinks the water that I shall give will never be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will turn into a spring inside him, welling up to eternal life." Olivier Messiaen translated by Sean McCutcheon | ” |
Tracks:
01 Fêtes des belles eaux - Premieres fusees [0:02:50.68]
02 Fêtes des belles eaux - L'eau [0:03:01.00]
03 Fêtes des belles eaux - Les fusees [0:01:16.25]
04 Fêtes des belles eaux - L'eau [0:10:01.41]
05 Fêtes des belles eaux - Les fusees [0:01:40.02]
06 Fêtes des belles eaux - L'eau [0:09:26.55]
07 Fêtes des belles eaux - Superposition de l'eau et des fusees [0:01:47.72]
08 Fêtes des belles eaux - Feu d'artifice final [0:05:20.59]
09 Feuillets inedits - Presque lent et berceur [0:01:59.57]
10 Feuillets inedits - Lent [0:02:31.16]
11 Feuillets inedits - Bien modere [0:03:54.66]
12 Feuillets inedits - Lent [0:02:57.00]
13 Maurice Ravel - quatuor à cordes - allegro moderato [0:08:29.61]
Performers:
Louise Besset – piano
Louise Larose – ondes Martenot
Jean Laurendeau - ondes Martenot
The Ensemble d'Ondes de Montréal are:
Marie Bernard
Suzanne Binet-Audet
Genevieve Grenier
Estelle Lemire
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