Messiaen: "Chronochromie", Part One

Olivier Messiaen: "Chronochromie"
1959-60) The title comes from the Greek "Kronos" (time) and "Kroma" (color).

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[guimachaut]

Excellent! Was the change of color of the portrait deliberate?

[NewMusicXX]

Yes - just some subtle fun based on the title of the composition.

[windowdresser]

I love this piece for its audacity, vividness, majesty, complexity. It's among the most difficult to perform of all orchestral works. Early recordings, including this one from 1966, were game but scattershot, reflecting performances of the time. The first great recording was Boulez/Cleveland ('95). Two new recordings with George Benjamin and Jonathan Nott are also superb, showing that It took a long time for performers to be able to grasp this piece and really play the heck out of it beautifully

[Soundman67]

NewMusicXX,

Looking at the amazing and wonderful collection of New Music-based videos you have provided any and everybody for listening pleasure and mind expansion, I applaud you! (Loud Clapping!!) I haven't heard Chronochromie in many years, and I enjoyed listening to this performance.

[balladeable]

I love Messiaen....

[BeaGagli]

"Assim acontece com a Chronochromie, de Messiaen com 18 cantos de pássaros formando personagens rítmicos autônomos e realizando, ao mesmo tempo, uma extraordinária paisagem em contrapontos complexos, acordes subentendidos ou inventados".

Gilles Deleuze - Mil Platôs Vol.4.

[thinedoor2]

Very appropriate terms used to describe this piece. My first listening was both unsettling and exciting, and it remains one of my favorite of Messiaen's works.

[ViewerNotes]

the most radical and agressive piece from messiaen. But still awesome.