Olivier Messaien's Oraison

One of the first all electronic compositions with Olivier Messaien making pretty heavy use of the Ondes Martenot years before Johnny Greenwood had even heard of it. In fact, he hadn't even been born!

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• Olivier
• Messaien
• Oraison
• Ondes
• martenot
• johnny
• greenwood
• early
• electronic
• music

[dnp226]

The last harmony leaves us not in absurdity, almost a tonal resolution, that is the final lift into heaven it seems. It is a closing point on the meditation, rather than leaving us dwelling in abscurity, as if there were a beautiful and meaningful point to all of what we heard, and here I finally am delivered to a new spiritual level whence I hear that final harmony. Beautiful...Music

[MrDrSmithJr]

@dnp226 My oh my sir. I think you're only a few paragraphs away from a publishing deal. That was too great of a description to simply be delegated to a youtube comment section.

[dnp226]

@MrDrSmithJr Hmm you think so? I should keep chugging then...Oh, oh not wait..I am drowning in the sarcasm..ah...ahhhh!!

[mcphilthy]

@MrDrSmithJr +1

[britandveg]

This was most perfect in the Quartet for the End of Time...I knew I had to play this at some point :)

[BlueCougar]

"Oraison" was written earlier, as part of the "Fête des belles eaux" for the Paris World Fair in 1937. Later, whiloe in POW camp during WW2, he incorporated it into the "Quatuor." (And changed a few bars)

[MatthewMingLi]

Hey isn't this the 5th movement from the Quartet for the End of Time? Is this a transcription of that movement or is it an earlier work?

[tamcon72]

This will temper my drearier waking moments with melancholy beauty. Thank you for posting.

[brothermitya]

deep