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The Turangalîla-Symphonie is the only symphony by Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). It was written for an orchestra of large forces from 1946 to 1948 on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Along with the Quatuor pour la fin du temps, the symphony is one of the composer's most notable works.
Feb 23, 2016 · From the archive, 5 July 1953: The Observer’s Eric Blom finds Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony an ordeal, but applauds the BBC for broadcasting it. Eric Blom. Tue 23 Feb 2016 07.00...
Jan 12, 2019 · My own latest discovery is the Turangalîla-Symphonie, a mind-blowing 75-minute orchestral piece by Olivier Messiaen, written in the 1940s. It's a rare treat for me to be able to work on a...
The Turangalîla-symphonie (1946-48) is a work about love – human, physical, sexual love, the centerpiece of what the composer called “a trilogy on the myth of Tristan and Isolde,” whose other, much briefer components are the song cycle Harawi: Chants d’amour et de la mort (1945) and the choral Cinq rechants (1948).
Work. Turangalîla-symphonie. Composer. Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie, one of the most famous BSO commissions initiated by Serge Koussevitzky, moves between the mysteriously mystical and heaven-storming power. Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was born in Avignon, France, on December 10, 1908, and died in Paris on April 27, 1992.
Olivier Messiaen. About This Event. The composer and critic Virgil Thomson described Olivier Messiaen’s music as ‘convulsive, ecstatic, cataclysmic, terrifying and unreal’. All converge...
The completed Turangalîla-Symphony (the hyphen in the title is Messiaen’s) is ten movements long. Its title consists of two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, meaning roughly “time” and “love” (or “play”). The work was premiered by the Boston Symphony under the baton of Leonard Bernstein in 1949.
