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Olivier Messiaen: Saint Franois d'Assise
 
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Olivier Messiaen: Saint Franois d'Assise [Box set] [Import] [from US]

~ Urban Malmberg (Baritone), Olivier Messiaen (作曲), Kent Nagano (指揮), Hall (オーケストラ), Chris Merritt (Tenor), et al.
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Disc: 1
1. Saint Francois d'Assise: Act One, Scene One - The Cross: Un peu vif (J'ai peur, sur las route)
2. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (J'ai peur, sur la route)
3. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un Peu vif (J'ai peur, sur la route)
4. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (S'il se met pleuvoir)
5. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un Peu vif - Saint Fran ois et Fr re L on remettent leur capuchon...
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Disc: 2
1. Saint Francois d'Assise: Act Two, Scene Four - The Journeying Angel: Un peu vif
2. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (J'ai peur, sur la route)
3. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (Frere Mass e rentre dans la salle conventuelle...)
4. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (Qui peut frapper de la sorte?)
5. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (Pourquoi me d range-t-on sans cesse?)
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Disc: 3
1. Saint Francois d'Assise: Act Two, Scene Six - The Sermon To The Birds: Un peu vif
2. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (Pere, te souviens-tu du jeune homme de Sienne?)
3. Saint Francois d'Assise: Un peu vif (Une louange! un point d'exclamation!)
4. Saint Francois d'Assise: Petit concert d'oiseaux
5. Saint Francois d'Assise: Petit concert d'oiseaux (Toute chose de beaut doit parvenir la libert)
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Disc: 4
1. Saint Francois d'Assise: Act Three, Scene Seven - The Stigmata: Bien modere
2. Saint Francois d'Assise: Bien modere (Seigneur J sus-Christ, accorde-moi deux gr ces)
3. Saint Francois d'Assise: Bien modere (Les miens, je les ai aim s)
4. Saint Francois d'Assise: The Stigmata (O faiblesse!... Ame tr s m prisable!...)
5. Saint Francois d'Assise: Une lueur rouge et violette enflamme toute la sc ne...
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Amazon.com's Best of 1999

Visionary French composer Olivier Messiaen spent nearly a decade writing St. Francis of Assisi, his four-hour opera inspired by the saint's life--including the famous legend of preaching to the birds, featuring the composer's mesmerizing musical aviary. This spectacular live recording from Salzburg reveals the work as a profoundly moving summation of a lifetime of discovery. --Thomas May


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The most ambitious work by 20th-century French master Olivier Messiaen, Saint Francis is also his most all-embracing. He spent nearly a decade creating the opera, which not only encapsulates the composer's abiding Catholic faith but draws on a lifetime of musical discovery and brings together the elements of Messiaen's far-ranging, rich vocabulary: birdsong and nature as a source for music, Eastern modes, complex rhythms derived from ancient Greek poetry and Hindu talas, plainsong, and percussive gamelan-like sonorities, to list a few of the most salient. Messiaen chose Francis for operatic representation as the saint "most like Christ" and wrote his own libretto, using the gentle poetry of the Fioretti. The opera avoids dramatic tension but instead--almost ritualistically--portrays the "infusion of grace" through a series of encounters, including an angel playing music that offers a taste of heaven's bliss (marvelously orchestrated for ondes Martenot) and the famous scene of St. Francis preaching to the birds, in which Messiaen stacks multiple bird calls on top of each other in an inspired passage of "organized chaos."

This live recording was made during 1998's Salzburg Festival, and Kent Nagano (who had studied the work directly with Messiaen during the opera's premiere in 1983) marshals the score's 119 players and enormous chorus into a spectacular series of symphonic frescoes. He is sensitive both to the resonant use of silence in the score's interstices and--most memorably--to Messiaen's rare achievement in creating music to express "perfect joy." And the cast he works with is unbeatable: José van Dam conveys immense compassion and presence in the almost unbelievably strenuous demands of the title role, while Dawn Upshaw sings the angel with a penetrating purity. This masterpiece demands time to get to know it--more than the four hours it takes to unfold--but once you know it, its rewards are immense. --Thomas May

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