🎵 Olivier Messiaen - Transports de joie (L'Ascension) // Richard McVeigh
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- For Ascension Day 2022 I thought it would be appropriate to perform Olivier Messiaen's 'Transports de Joie' from his L'Ascension suite.
This awesome toccata-like piece is one of the staple pieces in the organ repertory and is heard in many churches, cathedrals, abbeys and chapels throughout the world on Ascension Day.
I recorded this using only one side camera to allow you to purely focus on the music.
The organ is that of Dudelange, sampled for Hauptwerk by Voxus.
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*I need to hold up my hands and apologise. There is a glaring misreading in my part in this performance where I missed an accidental. MASSIVE respect to anyone who can spot it! Huge thanks to Jozef for pointing this out! Oddly, this is the 3rd time that I've performed **_Transports de Joie_** on BIS, each with the same misreading and no one has yet spotted it!*
I didn’t want to say anything, but yes.
I am amazed that anyone can detect a single incorrect note! Not my cup of tea - too many discordant sounds!
Maybe 4:16 to 4:19?
@Richard Daly That's the one! It's odd because upon playing this section again with the C#, I know that I definitely DID learn it as a C# as it feels so familiar, but I just missed it in this (and my other) performance.
@Michael Harding I'm not sure those two infamous descending passages are entirely correct (and I doubt my fingers ever will get them entirely correct). Kind of you to say though!👌
I love how at the end of playing every piece you always exhibit an almost prayerful attitude as if thanking God with great satisfaction.
Blessed Ascension Day to all believers.
Wow Richard 🤩 A marvellously dynamic & life-affirming performance! Thank you 🤗
The ecstatic joy of Christ’s ascension into heaven as imagined in this work is palpable. Truly one of Messiaen’s greatest declarations of his spiritual journey into the essence of Divine love.
I’m spell bound 😁
Strongly agree! Messiaen was deeply intelligent and genuinely spiritual, and that is shown clearest in the complexities and intricacies of his compositions. They are not mere crashing clusters of notes, but carefully thought out and planned statements. His intellect was astounding. And his music will prove timeless for centuries to come.
Thank you for favoring us with this glorious piece in honor of the Ascension of Our Lord!
The ending is just SO COOL!
Especially with all the Chamades AND Tuba Mirabilis!! 😎
Richard, this was excellent. It is one of my favourite pieces and I have a hope that it will be played as my coffin is taken out from my funeral!
The final resolution (also like that of Dieu Parmi Nous) is one of the greatest in all organ music;
after all that ascent and rapturous angel wing-flapping ( and the winds of the spirit swirling ready to descend)
the final chord and pedal note says it all "He has arrived at the mercy seat, the throne of glory".
Marvelous stuff played extremely well and the Dudelange organ set is very well suited for the piece.
(If I were ever on desert island discs this recording could very well be one of my choices)
The staff in my Rectory think I'm mad to love organ music so much!
Thank you and have a blessed Ascension Day
For us, over living here in the USA I can't help but think and pray that those innocent souls killed in the Uvdale school massacre have ascended with Him.
Mh oh my!!!! Incredible and frightening, but spectacular, Richard!
I have never heard this piece before. So enjoyed listening to it. Thank you Richard for playing it and introducing me to a new Composer. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This and the Passacaglia were my two favorite pieces. Thank you for bring it all back.
Glorious! Thank you, Richard!
Wow, just wow! Majestic and uplifting. Heaven and earth are depicted distinctly, then they meet and at a certain point exchange places like in a mystical revelation, as Jesus represent to as with the Ascension. Surely Messiaen conveyed unfathomable depth of theological meaning with his music, as I cannot even begin to describe in this short comment of mine. The ideas are there in the music, with not need for a theologian to sound sympathetic to the listener's heart.
I absolutely adore this performance - have loved Messiaen’s music ever since university and realising it can be memorised, and then analysing some of his pieces and finding amazing coherent underlying structure. It’s glorious!
Superb playing..and sound, Richard. An inspiration!!!
Wow! Thank you for this Ascension Day gift.
Brilliant - love that piece - thank you
Bravo!!
What a wonderful piece and performance!
RIKARD ITS SO FANTASTISK PERFECT THIS IS FOR THE WORLD OH OH SO WUNDERFUL WORLD WAITING SOLIE DE GLORIA
Ahhh Lord Richard, another swashbuckling performance...Love It! B-R-A-V-O!!!!!!!!!!!
Very good. Brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing this, RIchard! I have a deep and abiding love for Messiaen's music after getting to study it for A-level music -- as an organist, pianist, violinist, and orchestral player / conductor, I was ideally placed to appreciate the breadth of repertoire. This piece, and Dieu Parmi Nous from La Nativité, have always been amongst my favourites in the organ repertoire
Did anyone try to orchestrate this movement? Just because the author decided otherwise it does not mean that noone can do it.
@@OrbiliusMagister Howdy Orbilius, I'd surmise that with Messiaen describing L'Ascension as 4 meditations for Orchestra, he really wrote this work for Orchestra. And being the thoroughly educated Composer and Music Theoretician that he was, he could easily arrange L'Ascension for organ. Btw, the orchestral score is widely available. Now, to orchestrate/transcribe from the organ score...??? As my music pedagogue said to me: It's very much up to what the arranger/transcriber likes to accentuate - What timbres, colours, what instrumental sections, and so on, and so on and so on...........Be brave and sign up for a course in orchestration/transcription. There's a guy on RUclips whose last name is Bernstein - I believe his RUclips site is called Breaking Barlines...
Super performance - really appreciate your crisp, exciting articulation Richard - very rhythmical with a clear sense of direction leading to a perfect conclusion! Bravo!!
My favourite Messiaen piece. I remember hearing it in Canterbury Cathedral as a student. Thrilling and majestic.
My favorite Messiaen piece! I love his chords, after listening and playing his music I can really appreciate the color in his music. He had a disorder where he could see color with what he heard (which explains a lot). And for another Messiaen joke, instead of calling this piece “transports de joie” I like to call it “transports de bruit”
Translation of my joke, instead of “outbursts of joy” it’s “outburst of noise”
@@andybrown7325 And what an awesome noise it is! 👌
I’d like to point out that it’s not a disorder - I have this and it’s certainly no disorder nor is it categorised as one- chromesthesia is a form of sound-to-colour synesthesia, a lot more musicians have it than you’d imagine - aside from messien Leonard Bernstein, Scriabin, Liszt and rinsky -korsakov all had a form of it among others- please don’t categorise it as a disorder when it’s not 👍🏻
Thank you @Richard McVeigh 'Transports de Joie' sounded magnifique!! Super rich harmonies, glorious acoustic. A real tonic.
Wow! wow ! wow! Did I say wow?
Breathless... right to the last, oh most glorious, chord! 👏👏👏👏👏😍
Très belle interprétation! Tempo parfait a mon goût, tout est très intelligible .
Merci!
Magnificent! Always a joy to hear Messiaen played by you, and the new organ really lets rip on this piece.
Brilliant piece!
Gorgeous!
BRAVO - What a fantastic piece, and thrilling performance!
Bravo fantastic watt e power.
I think this is about the most coherent and musical performance I’ve ever heard of Transport… A beautifully incorporated landscape on an incredible instrument; I hope to hear Dudelange in the flesh one day. Thank you so much!
I've never found Messiaen that easy to listen to but this performance is so spectacular that I want to give it another chance! Thank you for helping open my ears to expand my listening repertoire!
Another fab bit of organ playing by dishy Richard....Never fails to make my toes curl....😏
Fantastic music
Amazing !
Greetings from Dallas Texas! Great piece!
Wow, that was amazing. 🤩 ‘God has certainly gone up with a merry noise.’
Awesome, Richard!! Thanks for this offering!!!
Absolutely incredible, Richard!
Wonderful! Thank you for this.
Bravo! Excellent job.
Terrific!
Good day for this ... Ascension Thursday.
You're convincing me more and more that I need Dudelange.........
Really enjoyed listening to this! A wonderful performance of an epic piece of music. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't play any Messiaen - you've inspired me to rectify that issue A.S.A.P. :)
Awesome - glad you enjoyed it! I highly recommend starting with La Nativite... very accessible and not too hard (for the most part!). The whole suite it just gorgeous and is very useful to have in your repertoire.
Just a question.
How come your home organ console is exactly the same as the 4-manual Harrison and Harrison organ of Cirencester Parish Church, UK, on which you made videos
It really looks like an exact replica!!!
Thank you
It’s a replica of the screen console of York Minster 😃
Very well done! I could see you were releaved to get to the end. Just wondering, how many takes does something like that take? I did a few hymns in lock down for a video and took me a quite a few goes until I was happy! Don't think I will attempt that one, way beyond me...
LOVE IT! I could play that piece like the wind when I was 17! Not quite so well at 63, sadly. But I must ask the obvious dim-witted question: Which sample set is that? It’s stunning.
Hello, thank you for your comment! Richard is playing the Dudelange sample set (in surround) by Voxus virtual organs.
@@caroline.balfour Thank you!
Sorry but my ear taste buds didn’t appreciate this piece. Lol. Thank you however for the hundred of pieces my ears have savoured. Keep up the good work!
There’s absolutely no need to apologise! Not all music is suited to all people - that’s the beauty of it. I’m just grateful that you’ve left me a comment, it is much appreciated and every comment on all my videos is seen and read.
This is the worst composition EVER! It's just noise to my ears. Didn't you have something better to play? I can send🤣
Haha! Believe me - there are pieces thousands of times worse than this! What's your favourite organ piece?
@@beautyinsound I have a few, but let me send you just one. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. How do I send it to you?