Re: Messiaen
Posted by dieter barkhoff on February 12, 2022, 9:13 am, in reply to "
Re: Messiaen"
Interesting juxtaposition: a practicing Catholic who can't hear it's resonance in Messiaen, a non-practicing Catlick - as my German father called us, he was Lutheran, and his English came from the Brits at a POW camp in Port Said - is put off by its Liturgical associations. I remade contact just before Christmas with a Bro who became a Priest, a very fine human being, a world-famous expert on the Johannine Gospel and we have corresponded about his faith and my lack of it. It began when I sent him links to those fabulous You Tube Bach Cantatas conducted by Rudolf Lutz, Bachstiftung- please follow up- and he relates most to the co-relation of the Liturgical texts to the music, I don't care if I don't know what the hell they're singing about, because it's basically mumbo jumbo to me. But that's another story. That's life, I guess, an amalgam of stories and songs. I live in Scomoland as well, a very scary place indeed. Previous Message I am frustrated by Messiaen, possibly for the opposite reason. As a practising Catholic I relate very much to the theological under-pinnings, but can't hear anything at all in the music with which it resonates. My fault, I'm sure - but as we say in Australia, "Yeah, but nah." Previous Message I enjoyed very much Simon Thompson's review of the Nagano/Aimard Messiaen release on Bavarian Classics. I've always tried to co-relate the enthusiasm of his proselytizers with my reaction to his music. I admit the Catholic stuff is - as a very much lapsed Catholic - double dutch to me and I've found that apart from the famous Quartet, there is nothing I feel I can get my teeth into. Dutilleux, for example, makes sense to me. Messiaen, I guess simply adds to my lack of interest in many other M's: Mendelssohn, Milhaud, Myaskovsky, Medtner, and Mahler's 8th. Does anyone else share my reception to Messiaen?
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Messiaen - dieter barkhoff January 20, 2022, 8:50 am
- Re: Messiaen - John F January 21, 2022, 7:01 am
- Re: Messiaen - Mikeh January 21, 2022, 7:45 am
- Re: Messiaen - John Drayton February 12, 2022, 12:43 am
- Re: Messiaen - dieter barkhoff February 12, 2022, 9:13 am
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