大象传媒

Messiaen's Turangal卯la Symphony with Gillian Moore

Olivier Messiaen's only symphony was written for an orchestra of enormous forces. The title comes from two Sanskrit words. "L卯la" means play in the sense of the divine action upon the cosmos. It also means love. "Turanga" is the time that runs, like a galloping horse and that flows, like sand in an hourglass; it's both movement and rhythm. The meaning of "Turangal卯la" was best summed up by Messian himself as "a love song; a hymn to joy." He described the joy of Turangal卯la as "superhuman, overflowing, blinding, unlimited".