I heard bits of this many years ago on the radio, and the only name I caught was Nadia Boulanger. I'm glad to hear the whole piece here... one of the most terrifying musical compositions in our history, and very appropriate for 2020.
LOVE IT. This is the French text she set, with such dramatic shifts and contrasts of rhythm, orchestration, texture, volume, and register to match the moods of the text: Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque, Iahvé Adonaï. Ecoute ma prière! Que tes oreilles soient attentives Aux accents de ma prière! Si tu prends garde aux péchés, Qui donc pourra tenir, Iahvé? La clémence est en Iahvé Afin qu'on le révère. Mon âme espère en Iahvé, J'espère, je compte sur sa parole Plus que les guetteurs de la nuit N'aspirent au matin. Israël espère en Iahvé, Car en Iahvé est la miséricorde. Et l'abondance de la délivrance. C'est lui qui délivrera Israel, De toutes ses iniquités En Iahvé est la clémence. Ah! Iahvé Adonaï.
1 Cantique des degrés. Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque, ô Éternel! 2 Seigneur, écoute ma voix! Que tes oreilles soient attentives A la voix de mes supplications! 3 Si tu gardais le souvenir des iniquités, Éternel, Seigneur, qui pourrait subsister? 4 Mais le pardon se trouve auprès de toi, Afin qu'on te craigne. 5 J'espère en l’Éternel, mon âme espère, Et j'attends sa promesse. 6 Mon âme compte sur le Seigneur, Plus que les gardes ne comptent sur le matin, Que les gardes ne comptent sur le matin. 7 Israël, mets ton espoir en l’Éternel! Car la miséricorde est auprès de l’Éternel, Et la rédemption est auprès de lui en abondance. 8 C'est lui qui rachètera Israël De toutes ses iniquités. Version Louis Segond 1910 Magnifique !
Ecouter Lili, c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux constituant une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation🐾🌿
I quattro compositori più precocemente maturi di tutti i tempi sono Mozart, Mendelssohn, Pergolesi e Lili Boulanger. Questo brano è un capolavoro assoluto.
Pity. It should have brought you to reverence, or better yet silence. That is until you have developed the ability to honor the soul that gave us such matchless immensities? To be humbled unto silence, when even applause is held back. And the audience and performer's stumble out into the darkness disoriented, still trailing the mists of transcendence. There are rare gifts and rarer still the moments when the bearer of those enchantments takes us, if only for awhile into transcendence. You never forget it, and words and recordings....shadows on the wall. Merci Lili.
The photo is not of Lili Boulanger . Lilli died rather young . The photo is of her sister Nadia Boulanger the world famous music "teacher " . Nadia said she sight read one of Lili's compositions . She was so overwhelmed by here sister Lili's composing abilities , that Nadia quite composing and focused on teaching music , music theory, etc . Nadia lived a long life , i do believe into her 80's . Here students ranged from Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein , Aaron Copland , etc to Quincy Jones and Burt Bacharach ,
Yes, you are correct about photo not being Lili Boulanger but her sister Nadia I read same story i read a while back about Nadia the elder sister feeling she could not compete as a composer with her sister Lili Boulanger. So Nadia concentrated on teaching , teaching music theory , conducting and ironically teaching music composition . Lili was only 25 when she died in 1918 . Amazing the few compositions she left us before she died at such a young age . They are so profound and mature for such a young women . btw she was the first female ever to win the Prix de Rome composition prize. If she had lived she would have ranked with the greatest composers of all time , in my humble opinion
+atsusiueno thank you for claricication. amazing i have never heard of Lili Boulanger but her music what i have heard so far is wow. i was astounded she died so young.
I discovered Lili's music three days ago, and I'm still dazzled. I've been through a non-stop listening binge and the more I listen to her music more perplexed I feel at its unconpromising complexity, conviction and modernity. It sounds almost as if she was screaming at eternity, as far as she could gather into the future. Moving and fascinating. The work of a true genius.
De profùndis clamàvi ad te, Dòmine; Dòmine, exàudi vocem meam. Fiant àures tuæ intendèntes in vocem depreciateònis meæ. E iniquitàtes observàveris, Dòmine, Dòmine, quis sustaèbit? Quia apud te propitiàtio est et proliter legem tuam sustìnui te, Dòmine. Sustìnuit mea ànima in verbo ejus, speràvit ànima mea in Dòmino. A custòdia matutìna usque ad noctem, speret Israël in Dòmino, quia apud Dòminum misericòrdia et copiòsa apud eum redèmptio. Et ipse rèdimet Israël ex òmnibus iniquitàtibus ejus.
Yes, the photo is of Nadia, the conductor of the pieces on this recording, not all of which are by her sister Lili. Not unusual to have the performer instead of the composer on a record cover! But had it been an all-Lili recording, Lili's photo might well have gone up front.
Lili Boulanger is a revelation. DAMN. Just getting my feet wet. As for the litany of anal retentive Sad Sacks pointing out how sister Nadia is on the cover as if this were somehow an incredible screw up or an indictible war crime...I mean...DUH. It has long been standard practice to feature the conductor on the cover of classical recordings, as for many fans browsing the LP racks, the conductor is often the deciding factor given a host of performance options, say if you prefer your Beethoven of a Furtwanglerian bent, rather than that of a VonKarajan. Not as if Nadia Boulangier does not rate the spotlight. GROW UP, people.
It's from a series of Discs containing recordings by famous conductors from the past. The photo in the cover is supposed to show the conductor not the composer, this recording is remarkable because Nadia is performing her own sister's work.
The cello/tuba doubling is just brilliant..
I heard bits of this many years ago on the radio, and the only name I caught was Nadia Boulanger. I'm glad to hear the whole piece here... one of the most terrifying musical compositions in our history, and very appropriate for 2020.
lili pour ta musique tu as atteint sommet de ta vie dans les sons de l'éternité.
Nadia defended and conducted her sister's works all her life, as she did here.
Conmovedora y poderosísima Lili.
LOVE IT. This is the French text she set, with such dramatic shifts and contrasts of rhythm, orchestration, texture, volume, and register to match the moods of the text:
Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque,
Iahvé Adonaï.
Ecoute ma prière!
Que tes oreilles soient attentives
Aux accents de ma prière!
Si tu prends garde aux péchés,
Qui donc pourra tenir, Iahvé?
La clémence est en Iahvé
Afin qu'on le révère.
Mon âme espère en Iahvé,
J'espère, je compte sur sa parole
Plus que les guetteurs de la nuit
N'aspirent au matin.
Israël espère en Iahvé,
Car en Iahvé est la miséricorde.
Et l'abondance de la délivrance.
C'est lui qui délivrera Israel,
De toutes ses iniquités
En Iahvé est la clémence.
Ah! Iahvé Adonaï.
Masterpiece
1 Cantique des degrés. Du fond de l'abîme je t'invoque, ô Éternel!
2 Seigneur, écoute ma voix! Que tes oreilles soient attentives A la voix de mes supplications!
3 Si tu gardais le souvenir des iniquités, Éternel, Seigneur, qui pourrait subsister?
4 Mais le pardon se trouve auprès de toi, Afin qu'on te craigne.
5 J'espère en l’Éternel, mon âme espère, Et j'attends sa promesse.
6 Mon âme compte sur le Seigneur, Plus que les gardes ne comptent sur le matin, Que les gardes ne comptent sur le matin.
7 Israël, mets ton espoir en l’Éternel! Car la miséricorde est auprès de l’Éternel, Et la rédemption est auprès de lui en abondance.
8 C'est lui qui rachètera Israël De toutes ses iniquités.
Version Louis Segond 1910
Magnifique !
Ecouter Lili, c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent
s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux constituant une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation🐾🌿
This was voted the best of 6 recordings by the critics on France Musique (Radio France).
6 recordings in general, or of this piece?
@@d_r_e_a_m_b_o_a_t Of this piece.
I quattro compositori più precocemente maturi di tutti i tempi sono Mozart, Mendelssohn, Pergolesi e Lili Boulanger. Questo brano è un capolavoro assoluto.
Pity. It should have brought you to reverence, or better yet silence. That is until you have developed the ability to honor the soul that gave us such matchless immensities? To be humbled unto silence, when even applause is held back. And the audience and performer's stumble out into the darkness disoriented, still trailing the mists of transcendence. There are rare gifts and rarer still the moments when the bearer of those enchantments takes us, if only for awhile into transcendence. You never forget it, and words and recordings....shadows on the wall. Merci Lili.
Nadia Boulanger was the conductor on this recording. So not so embarrassing.
Great!
A Real Treat !!
LILI SUPERBE MUSIQUE LA DEBUSSY FEMME
The photo is not of Lili Boulanger . Lilli died rather young . The photo is of her sister Nadia Boulanger the world famous music "teacher " . Nadia said she sight read one of Lili's compositions . She was so overwhelmed by here sister Lili's composing abilities , that Nadia quite composing and focused on teaching music , music theory, etc . Nadia lived a long life , i do believe into her 80's . Here students ranged from Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein , Aaron Copland , etc to Quincy Jones and Burt Bacharach ,
Yes, you are correct about photo not being Lili Boulanger but her sister Nadia I read same story i read a while back about Nadia the elder sister feeling she could not compete as a composer with her sister Lili Boulanger. So Nadia concentrated on teaching , teaching music theory , conducting and ironically teaching music composition . Lili was only 25 when she died in 1918 . Amazing the few compositions she left us before she died at such a young age . They are so profound and mature for such a young women . btw she was the first female ever to win the Prix de Rome composition prize. If she had lived she would have ranked with the greatest composers of all time , in my humble opinion
This is conducted by Nadia.
OMG at 3.10 i thought I was listening to Messiaen. Why have I never hear of this compioser? I Know the name Nadia Boulanger.
Lili was her sister.
+atsusiueno thank you for claricication. amazing i have never heard of Lili Boulanger but her music what i have heard so far is wow. i was astounded she died so young.
She is simply amazing. I've never heard something like her music, perhaps Stravinsky is the one that comes close in terms of sonority.
Quite simply because Women Composers are STILL struggling for equality.
I discovered Lili's music three days ago, and I'm still dazzled. I've been through a non-stop listening binge and the more I listen to her music more perplexed I feel at its unconpromising complexity, conviction and modernity. It sounds almost as if she was screaming at eternity, as far as she could gather into the future. Moving and fascinating. The work of a true genius.
De profùndis clamàvi ad te, Dòmine; Dòmine, exàudi vocem meam. Fiant àures tuæ intendèntes in vocem depreciateònis meæ. E iniquitàtes observàveris, Dòmine, Dòmine, quis sustaèbit? Quia apud te propitiàtio est et proliter legem tuam sustìnui te, Dòmine. Sustìnuit mea ànima in verbo ejus, speràvit ànima mea in Dòmino. A custòdia matutìna usque ad noctem, speret Israël in Dòmino, quia apud Dòminum misericòrdia et copiòsa apud eum redèmptio. Et ipse rèdimet Israël ex òmnibus iniquitàtibus ejus.
too slow for me...i like it a little bit quick... but there is a great relief of the whole orchestration....it is very clear..
Surely the photo on the cover is of NADIA Boulanger not LiLi who died at the age of 24!
Yes, the photo is of Nadia, the conductor of the pieces on this recording, not all of which are by her sister Lili. Not unusual to have the performer instead of the composer on a record cover! But had it been an all-Lili recording, Lili's photo might well have gone up front.
Lili Boulanger is a revelation. DAMN. Just getting my feet wet. As for the litany of anal retentive Sad Sacks pointing out how sister Nadia is on the cover as if this were somehow an incredible screw up or an indictible war crime...I mean...DUH. It has long been standard practice to feature the conductor on the cover of classical recordings, as for many fans browsing the LP racks, the conductor is often the deciding factor given a host of performance options, say if you prefer your Beethoven of a Furtwanglerian bent, rather than that of a VonKarajan. Not as if Nadia Boulangier does not rate the spotlight. GROW UP, people.
Is this the psalm 130 of Lili, because tha music don't match with the score....???..So any one can explain?
+Diego Inagaki You're looking at the wrong score...?
No, in fact I know now what's happening.....is the rubato marking that was disturbing the reading
+Diego Inagaki
There are no rubato marking as far as I know
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That photo on the cover of that album is of the legendary Nadia boulanger - Lili's older sister - not Lili... Mm... Embarrassing...
She's conducting her sister's music (along with works if other composers). That's why she's on the cover.
It's from a series of Discs containing recordings by famous conductors from the past. The photo in the cover is supposed to show the conductor not the composer, this recording is remarkable because Nadia is performing her own sister's work.
I have a Beethoven record with Stokowski on the cover - how can such mistakes happen?!!???
It’s outrageous!! 😂🤣
Why is everyone mentioning this? There is also a Fauré piece on the album, so why would it be Lily?