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Saint Francis of Assisi

Author: diz
Date: 2005-10-31 23:44

Just finished listening to an epic work "Saint Francis of Assisi" by Olivier Messiean.

I was totally blown away by the composer's use of the contrabass clarinet in this opera, has anyone ever heard this work live?

the orchestra is enormous:

1975-83 Saint-François d'Assise - Opera - Choir: s.s.m-s.a.t.t.bar.b.b (15 voices per part) - i.e. chorus of 150 (!!)

Orch: 7.4.8.4; 6.4.3.3; xylo, xylorimba, vibraphone, marimba, glock, 5 perc; 3 ondes martenot; 16.16.14.12.10. (Leduc)

thanks

Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.

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Re: Saint Francis of Assisi

Author: Bassie
Date: 2005-11-11 08:57

Messiaen is great. If you like big scoring, you really MUST check out Walton's 'Belshazzar's Feast'. 1st & 2nd satb + soloists + orchestra + (wait for it!...) brass band!

And I seem to recall there's some nice little bass clarinet bits hiding in there too...

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