La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

Album by Olivier Messiaen & NDR Chor & Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Karl Anton Rickenbacher & Yvonne Loriod

La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ is a large-scale oratorio by French composer Olivier Messiaen, completed in 1969. The work blends Messiaen's modal harmonies, complex rhythms, vivid orchestral colour and extended choral and solo writing to explore a religious narrative, representing a late-period synthesis of his spiritual concerns and timbral and rhythmic innovations.
First released: 1999

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Gospel Narrative
    3:00
  2. 2.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Gospel Narrative
    4:34
  3. 3.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Terribilis est locus iste
    6:41
  4. 4.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Configuratum corpori claritatis suae
    6:18
  5. 5.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Tota Trinitas apparuit
    14:35
  6. 6.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Christus Jesus, splendor Patris
    7:41
  7. 7.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Chorale of the Glorious Light
    6:50
  8. 8.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Gospel Narrative
    2:32
  9. 9.
    Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, I/47
    28:10
  10. 10.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Quam dilecta tabernacula tua
    8:58
  11. 11.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Candor est lucis aeterna
    1:35
  12. 12.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part I. Chorale of the Holy Mountain
    3:09
  13. 13.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Gospel Narrative
    3:12
  14. 14.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Perfecte conscius illius perfectae generationis
    16:59
  15. 15.
    La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, I/48: Part II. Adoptionem filiorum perfectam
    7:22

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