According to Messiaen, La Nativité du Seigneur represented a musical coming-of-age for the young composer. The organ became for Messiaen became a self-contained orchestra, capable of endless variety and limitless expression, but also transcended the orchestra in terms of the possibilities of duration, resonance, and timbre. Timbre, in fact, is central to the work, and, as musicologist John Milsom points out, what appears on paper to be music dominated by melodic and harmonic concerns within a carefully constructed contrapuntal texture instead turns into "flashes of color and light...an astonishing display of fireworks" when performed. The work consists of nine "meditations," foreshadowing the symbolic nine-movement structure of the Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité of 1969. Musically La Nativité is significant, for it represents the first explicit use of Messiaen's famous chromatic modes, the "modes of limited transformation" to which the composer draws attention in the work's preface. As a whole, the work is a mixture of the beautiful and the bizarre: the density of timbre is at once breathtaking and overwhelming, and the sheer variety of registration makes for a piece that is not always easily accessible. It represents a step for Messiaen toward the later, decidedly esoteric and atmospheric pieces of the late 1940s and 1950s. A1 La Vierge Et L'Enfant A2 Les Bergers A3 Desseins Eternels A4 Le Verbe B1 Les Enfants De Dieu B2 Les Anges B3 Jesus Accepte La Souffrance B4 Les Mages B5 Dieu Parmi Nous |
Grading is VISUAL; occasional play-grading will be noted.Slight warps that do not affect the sound and factory cut-out hole or corner cut are generally accepted.Please keep that in mind BEFORE buying anything and you agree to respect my terms when you place this order.
M : Mint. As new,looks unplayed or sealed.
NM : Near Mint.
Record = is as good as new and clear. May have some minor paper scuffs or/and tiny hairlines.
Cover = as new with maybe the slightest signs of wear on corners, edges, spine or surface.
EX : Excellent.
Record = Still very clear with more hairlines or/and some small scuffs.
Cover = there is a bit wear on corners, edges and surface, slight wrinkle, minor writing on back.
VG+ : Very Good+.
Record = clear but you can see some light scratches and/or some small scuffs across the surface.
Cover = is still looking good, but there is some wear on corners & edges,slight creasing. There are split in the seams, wear or/and small sticker damage on the surfacewithout any major defects.
VG : Very Good.
Record = you can see many noticeable scratches or scuffs, some may cause distracting surface noise.
Cover = there is real wear on corners, edges and spine.There are splits in the seams, serious surface-wear, price sticker damage, small tears or duct tape seam repairs, other not too significant flaws or damage.
G : Good.
When I put a record on Ebay with this grade then it well be a very rare one. In that case I will describe the imperfections on this record in detail.
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1 LP: 13.00 €
2-8 LPs: 28.00 €
Priority shipping to AMERICA - AUSTRALIA - ASIA - AFRICA:
1 LP: 15.00 €
2-8 LPs: 32.00 €
Double LP will be applied to two items.
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No returns of sealed items!
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