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	Symphony
		); Symphonies not for a symphony orchestra (
		Symphonies at this time, whether for concert, opera or church use, were not considered the major work on a program: often, as with Concerti, they were divided up between other works, or drawn from suites or overtures.
		Along with a widening of what could be considered a symphony, the 20th century saw an increase in the number of works which could reasonably be called symphonies but which were given some other name by their composer.
	www.mp3.fm /Symphony.htm (2115 words)

	Olivier Messiaen: Annotated Bibliography
		As the dissertation for his doctoral degree in orchestral conducting, Barber produced this study of Messiaen's symphonic magnum opus, the Turangalila Symphony.
		He then discusses Turangalila in the context of other 20th-century symphonic masterworks, provides a brief (and incomplete) history of performances and recordings of the piece, and concludes with an appendix offering rehearsal and performance strategies for conductors.
		Some of the rhythmic devices used in the Quartet and in Turangalila are examined in detail, and there is in the second article an exhaustive study of the rhythms used in Oiseaux exotiques (1955).
	theory.music.indiana.edu /isaacso/t556/bibliographies/messiaen.html (5621 words)

	Program Notes
		Composed for the Boston Symphony, on a commission from its music director, Serge Koussevitzky, Turangalîla was premiered by that orchestra in Boston on December 2, 1949, under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.
		The Symphony is cast in ten movements that are disassociative rather than strictly integrated - yet it nevertheless achieves an uncanny sense of coherence, through a complex of melodic-motivic and conceptual threads.
		The "chord" theme is heard in the introduction and coda that bracket the development; with the piano providing the rhythm, it spreads over the different timbres of the orchestra, while bells and then trombones and trumpets play the "statue" theme in rhythmic triple canon based on closed non-retrogradable rhythms.
	www.philorch.org /styles/poa02e/www/prognotes_20031002.html (5001 words)

	Reviews Aug 99
		Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony is one of the most challenging orchestral pieces ever written.
		Now his whole output seems to have acquired a classic status and the Albert Hall was almost full on Saturday for a programme consisting of the Turangalila Symphony prefaced by four organ pieces.
		On paper the programme promised to cover a range of the composers' styles, but in concert the first half fell flat, and not simply because the Albert Hall organ is currently a wheezy shadow of its former self.
	www.nyo.org.uk /reviews/Aug01.htm (980 words)

	Kent Nagano
		In the 28 years he has served as music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano has established an international reputation as a gifted interpreter of both the operatic and symphonic repertoire.
		In September 2006, he began his tenure as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and also became general music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
		Nagano’s early professional years were spent in Boston, working in the opera house and as assistant conductor to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
	www.berkeleysymphony.org /who/kent.htm (516 words)

	Alabama Symphony Orchestra - Featured Conductors - Paul Polivnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maestro Polivnick was music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 1985-1993, during which time the season grew from 40 to 46 weeks of concerts.
		From 1981-1984, Paul Polivnick was associate conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and from 1984-1985, its associate principal conductor.
		One of the highlights of his time in Milwaukee was a performance of Messiaen's monumental Turangalila Symphony that was broadcast on 300 classical radio stations nationwide by WFMT Chicago.
	www.alabamasymphony.org /conductors-polivnick.html (859 words)

	Turangalîla-Symphonie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written from 1946 to 1948, on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
		It was premiered by that orchestra in December 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston.
		While most of Messiaen's compositions are religious in inspiration, at the time of writing the symphony the composer was fascinated by the myth of Tristan and Isolde, and the Turangalîla Symphony forms the central work in his trilogy of compositions concerned with the themes of romantic love and death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphonie (414 words)

	Matthias's Musical Reviews: EMI
		The Pastoral Symphony is much ridiculed because it often seems to most folks that nothing actually happens in the piece.
		Of the 4th Symphony in F Minor, I have never found a work I thought to be a better study in unbridled violence.
		If there were to be a symphony to characterize the first half of the twentieth century, this would be it.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/review/emi.html (1354 words)

	MESSIAEN Turangalila Symphony. L'Ascension. Polish NRSO/Wit (Naxos) - INKPOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The work owes its existence to the conductor Sergei Koussevitsky, who commissioned Messiaen to write something for the Boston Symphony, with complete freedom as to the kind of work, its length and size, and most importantly, the liberty of taking as much time as Messiaen needed to finish it.
		The reason for its endurance, not including its potentially fascinating variations of sound and timbre, has to be attributed to the composers who wrote important works for it - much in the same way that the basset horn, for a time, was kept alive by the music of Mozart.
		In the latter-named work, its sound was used to portray the character of no less a luminary than Marlene Dietrich.
	inkpot.com /classical/messtura_naxos.html (1154 words)

	Koussevitzky English
		Boston Symphony was born to a poor, but musical family in Vishny-Volochok, Russia on July 26, 1874 and he died in Boston USA on June 4, 1951.
		At the age of 14 he ran away from home and began his musical studies at the School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society (Musico-Dramatic Institute in Moscow) He chose music theory and the double bass because it was one of the few instruments for which a full scholarship was available.
		For the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony in 1931, he commissioned a string of masterworks including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Ravel's Piano Concerto, Roussel's Third Symphony, Hanson's Romantic Symphony, Prokofieff's Fourth Symphony, and Gershwin's 2nd Rhapsody.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /koussevitzky_english.html (904 words)

	Amazon.com: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony: Music: Olivier Messiaen,Seiji Ozawa,Toronto Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Turangalila belongs to the school of compositions that provides music that is noisy and replete with fun commotion.
		Just to be clear, I consider the Turangalila to be a masterpiece in its own right, and the Seiji Ozawa recording is important in that it is the first, but there have been much better recordings since.
		The Turangalila Symphony is definitely not a work to snooze to.
	amazon.com /Olivier-Messiaen-Turangal%C3%AEla-Symphony/dp/B0001TSWM8 (1248 words)

	Review: Symphony embarks on 10-movement, overwhelming journey - Saturday, 10/23/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony — the focus of this weekend's phenomenally daring Nashville Symphony concert pair — is far easier to respect and admire than it is to introduce, interpret or even pronounce.
		The symphony and its musicians should be commended not only for taking a chance, but for showing that they were up to the challenge.
		The Nashville Symphony performs Messiaen's monumental Turangalila Symphony again at 8 tonight in TPAC's Jackson Hall.
	www.tennessean.com /entertainment/arts/archives/04/09/60363957.shtml (577 words)

	RTÉ MUSIC
		Because of his long association with both symphony and concert orchestras, his repertoire covers the entire spectrum from popular to symphonic - taking in opera, operetta, oratorio and ballet - and includes many national and world premières.
		He followed this with string quartets and a symphony, which was premiered with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and subsequently performed in Ireland by the then RTÉ Symphony Orchestra at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.
		In 1963 Proinnsías became Principal Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
	www.rte.ie /music/rteco/rtecoconductors.html (1058 words)

	Telarc International: Christoph Eschenbach
		Eschenbach’s season at Schleswig-Holstein began with a performance of Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand, and his season at the Hamburg NDR began with a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 conducted from the piano, followed by Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony.
		Eschenbach led the Chicago Symphony in repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Brahms to Messiaen and Takemitsu.
		Eschenbach has also recorded Mozart, Dvoräk, and Brahms with the Houston Symphony, and his four Schnittke concerti CDs, two with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, one with the London Philharmonia, one with the NDR Hamburg, and all with Gidon Kremer, are considered essentials of the catalog.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=29 (459 words)

	NPR's SymphonyCast: Show Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The lush Third Symphony by Rachmaninoff joins a dramatic concerto by Shostakovich -- on of the 20th century's true classics -- and a popular and sometimes stormy set of concert experts from another modern masterpiece, Britten's opera, Peter Grimes.
		In this rare appearance at Symphony Hall in Boston, he leads the stellar musicians of the Boston Symphony in bracing performances of Sibelius' final two symphonies, along with two works by Benjamin Britten: the Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann, and the English composer's unusual arrangement of a symphonic movement by Gustav Mahler.
		The gala launch of the Pacific Symphony's new concert home continues, with Midori soloing in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and a trio of world-class soloists joining the orchestra and the Pacific Chorale for the premiere by Philip Glass.
	www.npr.org /programs/symphonycast/shows/schedule.html (1934 words)

	MESSIAEN Turangalila Symphony Ozawa RCA 82876 59418 2 [JQ]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I also attended, with Adrian, a memorable concert performance in a sparsely-filled Free Trade Hall, Manchester, which was given by what was then the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra under Gilbert Amy, with Yvonne Loriod playing the piano part.
		It was commissioned in 1945 by Serge Koussevitzky and was premièred by the Boston Symphony in 1949 under Koussevitzky’s protégé, Leonard Bernstein.
		I have read that there is a recording of the first performance in the American Library of Congress and it would be a major coup if someone could organise a CD release of that.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2005/Jan05/Turangalila.htm (1208 words)

	The Cleveland Orchestra
		Following his 1989 American debut with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst returned regularly to the United States, appearing with the orchestras of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Saint Louis.
		He also appears with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and has conducted the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra many times since the ensemble’s founding in 1986.
		His recording of Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 4 won the 1996 Gramophone Award for “best orchestral recording.” His recording of Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 and Te Deum was nominated for a Grammy Award, as was his first recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra, of music by Korngold.
	www.clevelandorch.com /html/about/Franz.Main.asp (817 words)

	Mahler 3/Boulez - Turangalila
		I find this new recording of Symphony No. 3 to be sterile and quite unimaginative.
		In spite of the 5.l channels there is little concert hall presence—the orchestra is in front of the listener, rather like in a vacuum.
		Another problem is that the symphony is spread out onto two CDs, with a total playing time of less than 96 minutes; surely there should be a filler for a set of two premium-price CDs.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /MC68.html (364 words)

	Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony (1998)
		Messiaen tells us: 'Apart from numerous themes relating to each of the ten movements, the symphony includes four recurring themes which can be heard almost anywhere in the work.
		Composed between May and July 1932 and orchestrated in July the following year, L'ascension is the most important work of Messiaen's youth and is still one of the most played.
		Taking their inspiration from Scripture, the four pieces of 'true music, […] spiritual [and] speaking of every subject whilst never ceasing to speak of God,' are not at all the movements of a symphony.
	www.puckette.com /details/9850.html (1820 words)

	Music That Moves Us
		Messiaen’s primary inspiration for the Turangalîla Symphony was the medieval myth of Tristan and Isolde, a story of an illicit love so intense that the ultimate union of the two could be achieved only in death.
		Messiaen speaks of Tristan and Isolde’s boundless love in these terms: “...an irresistible love, a love which in principle leads to death and which calls for death; for it is a love that transcends the body and the spirit, and extends to the cosmos.”
		The work falls into ten movements—(the traditional four-movement symphonic structure would be insufficient to portray themes of love, death, and ritual in the farthest reaches of an ever-expanding cosmos)—and lasts a bit over a hour, the general time frame of the Mahler symphonies or of Beethoven’s Ninth.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pickOTmonth.asp?nodeid=2365 (381 words)

	Santa Rosa Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Polivnick was music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 1985-1993, during which time the season grew from 40 to 46 weeks of concerts.
		From 1981-84 Polivnick was sssociate conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and, from 1984-85, its associate principal conductor.
		After private study with Boris Koutzen, former first violinist with the late Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, and Raymond Crisara, trumpeter with the same orchestra, Paul entered the Juilliard School in 1965.
	www.santarosasymphony.com /bios_05_06/Paul.asp (854 words)

	Celesta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original French instrument had a five-octave range, but as the lowest octave was considered somewhat unsatisfactory, it was omitted from later models.
		Interestingly the standard French four-octave instrument is now gradually being replaced in symphony orchestras by a larger, five-octave German model.
		Although treated as a member of the percussion section in orchestral terms, it is usually played by a pianist, the part being normally written on two bracketed staves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celesta (564 words)

	MESSIAEN Turangalila symphony [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As it is, the Ozawa has hardly been out of the catalogue over the years...
		While it labours under the burden of 1960s analogue sound this is not a comment on the presence of hiss or on any intrinsic weakness in the sound although it has acquired a hint of deckle edge over the years.
		The symphony’s filmic, even psychedelic, excesses are there to be gloried in rather than decried.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/May04/Messiaen_Turangalila.htm (508 words)

	Classical Net Review - Messiaen - Turangalîla, L'ascension
		I can remember when Turangalîla was a rarity, and when everyone got the RCA Victor LPs from 1968 of Seiji Ozawa conducting the Toronto Symphony.
		Since then, there have been several excellent recordings of the work, and Ozawa's performance no longer seems as special as it once did.
		Wit's total timing for the symphony is 80:45, which some labels have shown is not too long for a single disc.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/n/nxs54478a.html (487 words)

	Turangalila Symphony - Christoph Eschenbach - New York Classical Music Review
		Despite its detractors, Turangalîla is still the composer’s most performed work, a showpiece that never fails to rouse an audience.
		The symphony’s ten movements—actually more of a suite than a true symphonic construction—explore a huge variety of moods, textures, and technical procedures, and even those who find the experience slightly repulsive are unlikely to be bored.
		I would never have associated Eschenbach with this music—but then, he has come a long way since I first encountered him as a stern-looking piano prodigy who many years ago recorded the complete Mozart sonatas for Deutsche Grammophon.
	nymag.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_9413/index.html (1092 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Antoni Wit's new recording of Messiaen's phantasmagoric Turangalila Symphony may lack the extreme orchestral virtuosity of versions by Previn, Chailly, or Salonen, but it beats them all in sheer musicality and fidelity to the composer's minutely specified instructions.
		Turangalila seems to have overtaken L'ascension as the composer's most popular work, but it's great to have a new version of this early masterpiece available in such idiomatic and secure hands.
		Once again, Wit offers a near-perfect performance, from the brightly toned trumpets of the third movement "Alléluia" to the serene string textures of the finale "Prayer of Christ Rising Towards His Father".
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2193 (473 words)

	Monday Afternoon Classics with Gandalf
		One time the [Paris] Opera did a ballet set to the music of Turangalîla. I was still in the Opera as a ‘cellist and I remember the first rehearsal [he laughed].
		During the summer of the early 1950s, when I was yet a youngster, a recording of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, which he composed in 1937, suddenly made the charts, and suddenly it seemed to me that I was hearing that composition more frequently than any of the pop songs of the era.
		Let’s listen now to Shostakovich’s last symphony as it is performed by the BBC Philharmonic under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky.
	www.wjffradio.org /programs/gandalf/2006_02_01_gandalf_archive.html (3916 words)

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