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Showing posts with label Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité. Show all posts

Monday, August 14, 2017

Olivier Messiaen - "Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité" 2 x Vinyl, Album, LP, 1974 (Musical Heritage Society)






I wanted to find the heaviest organ sounding album possible, and I believe I found it:  Oliver Messiaen's "Méditations" with him playing the organ at the Church of Sainte Trinité.  Messiaen is a composer that I know very little of but wasn't much of a laughing guy. This is meditation in the religious sense, where one focuses on the nature of a God in a church and reflecting on the offshoots of such a belief.  Think St. Thomas Aquinas. 

On the other hand, I get off on Messiaen's organ playing and the majestic overpowering sense of power out of his instrument and his skill as a composer.  It's not all bombast and power, there are quiet moments as well, but having this album in full volume is clearly a tunnel from one side (my home and turntable)  to God.