Olivier Messiaen - Eclairs sur l´Au-dela Les Offrandes oublièes

Klassik Heute: outstanding.


Christ is not the only one constantly present in these meditations, however, but also the heavenly bodies, the stars, the colors of the precious stones of heavenly Jerusalem, and birds.
The inner peace of the mystic, the peace of his soul already presaged here on Earth in the radiant kindliness of God – „in the sunlit peace of divine love“ (as the composer entitled the second part of his organ work Le compat de la mort et la vie as early as 1939); the setting to this title is Movement 4, the heart of the cycle Les corps glorieux – the layering of tonal colors, hundreds of chords in the style typical of Messiaen.