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Heather:
The Cure:
Disintegration.
Messaien: Turangalīla-Symphonie.
The recording by the Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille under Myung-Wung Chung
(Deutsche Grammophon) was 'endorsed' by Messaien himself as definitive.
Turangalīla is a Sanskrit word. Līla literally means 'play' (here I'm quoting
from the liner notes):
"...play in the sense of the divine
action upon the cosmos, the play of creation, of destruction, of reconstruction,
the play of life and death." Līla is also Love.
Turanga: this is time that runs, like a galloping horse; this is time
that flows, like sand in an hourglass. Turanga is movement and rhythm.
Turangalīla therefore means all at once love song, hymn to joy, time,
movement, rhythm, life and death. The Turangalīla-Symphonie is a love
song. The Turangalīla-Symphonie is a hymn to joy. Not the respectable,
calmy euphoric joy of some good man of the 17th century, but joy as it
may be conceived by someone who has glimpsed it only in the midst of sadness:
in other words, a joy that is superhuman, overflowing, blinding, unlimited.
Love is present here in the same manner: this is a love that is fatal,
irresistible, transcending everything, suppressing everything outside
itself, a love such as is sympolized by the philtre of Tristan and Yseult."
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