Des canyons aux étoiles

Album by Olivier Messiaen & Alan Gilbert & Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ensemble

Des canyons aux étoiles... is a large-scale orchestral composition by Olivier Messiaen, completed in 1974. It blends Messiaen's characteristic modes of limited transposition, intricate rhythmic patterns and bird-song-inspired motifs with prominent use of the ondes Martenot and broad orchestral colour, representing a late-period engagement with natural landscape and spirituality in his output.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part I: I. Le Désert ("The desert")
    3:25
  2. 2.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part I: II. Les Orioles ("The orioles")
    6:07
  3. 3.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part I: III. Ce qui est Écrit sur les Étoiles ("What is written in the stars")
    5:47
  4. 4.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part I: IV. Le Cossyphe D'Heuglin ("The white-browed robin-chat")
    4:04
  5. 5.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part I: V. Cedar Breaks et le Don de Crainte ("Cedar Breaks and the gift of awe")
    7:06
  6. 6.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part II: VI. Appel Interstellaire ("Interstellar call")
    6:53
  7. 7.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part II: VII. Bryce Canyon et Les Rochers Rouge-Orange ("Bryce Canyon and the red-orange rocks")
    12:36

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part III: VIII. Les Ressucités et le Chant de L'étoile Aldebran ("The resurrected and the song of the star Aldebaran")
    8:43
  2. 3.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part III: IX. Le Moqueur Polyglotte ("The mockingbird")
    10:57
  3. 4.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part III: X. La Grive des Bois ("The wood thrush")
    4:16
  4. 5.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part III: XI. Omao, Leiothrix, Elepaio, Shama ("Omao, leiothrix, elepaio, shama")
    8:49
  5. 6.
    Des Canyons aux Etoiles - Part III: XII. Zion Park et la Cité, Céleste ("Zion Park and the celestial city")
    10:22

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