Messiaen Turangalîla 6 extrait

[beethomozart]

a pity we don't have the whole movement which lasts more than 12 minutes, colossal work by french composer Olivier Messiaen

[gomey70]

fantastic, love this piece.

messiaen was the king.

[islandcrimes]

twinkling lunar majesty---souds a lil like charles ives. There used to be a great messiaen organ video but it was taken down

[BlueCougar]

The structure is very complicated: Strings and ondes play a melody roughly in F sharp - Solo piano plays transcribed bird calls - percussion have serial row material - flute/clarinet have independent 16th figures. All simlutaneously.

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

AKA the heterodox approach to composition, or taking innovations to use in one's own terms.