Edit Klukon, Dezső Ránki, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – piano, UMZE Chamber Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Conductor: Zoltán Rácz Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen Turangalîla Symphony The concert is organised by the Palace of Arts in cooperation with the Budapest Institut Française. The concert falls on the very day on which Olivier Messiaen was born in Avignon one hundred years ago. His interest in music became apparent at the age of seven: he taught himself... to play the piano and began composing. From the age of eleven, he began eleven years of study at the Paris Conservatoire: he studied organ and improvisation with Marcel Dupré and composition and orchestration with Paul Dukas. As a composer he was influenced by the mystery of numbers, Indian rhythms, Gregorian music, the sonority of Javan gamelan orchestras, as well as Debussy and Stravinsky, and his work also drew great strength and inspiration from his profound Catholic faith. He was also blessed with synaesthesia, the ability to see sounds as colour, and as a talented ornithologist, he researched the melodies and rhythms of bird song. The principal device of his music is regarded as rhythm and he described himself as both composer and rhythmicist. Visions de l’Amen was composed for two pianos in 1943. The work is in seven movements: the Amen of Creation (1), Amen of the stars, of the ringed planet (2), Amen of the Agony of Jesus (3), Amen of Desire (4), Amen of the Angels, of the Saints, of Bird Song (5), Amen of Judgement (6), Amen of Consummation (7). His ten movement Turangalîla Symphony was written for piano and large orchestra and is based on ancient Indian mythology. It was written between 1946 and 1948 and its title is the combination of two Indian words. “Messiaen expands the literal meaning of ‘time play’ to the widest extent, and conceives the movement as a hymn of joy, of time and movement, and as a hymn of love.” (Péter Halász)
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