Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49 Tom Winpenny

• Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992): Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49:
• 1 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: I. Le Père inengendré 08:57
• 2 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: II. La sainteté de Jésus-Christ 10:52
• 3 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: III. La relation réelle en Dieu est réellement identique à l'essence 02:54
• 4 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: IV. Je suis, je suis! 06:31
• 5 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: V. Dieu est immense, éternel, immuable - Le souffle de l'Esprit - Dieu est Amour 10:41
• 6 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: VI. Le Fils, Verbe et Lumière 08:00
• 7 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: VII. Le Père et le Fils aiment, par le Saint Esprit, eux-mêmes et nous 06:19
• 8 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: VIII. Dieu est simple 08:49
• 9 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, I/49: IX. Je suis Celui qui suis 10:44
• Total Runtime 01:13:47

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Olivier Messiaens Meditations sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite grew out of improvisations that he performed at the inauguration of the rebuilt organ of La Trinite in 1967. It became his largest cycle to date and marks Messiaens first use of communicable language, in which each letter of the alphabet is assigned a unique pitch and note value, thereby translating text into music. Haunting harmonies, awe-inspiring monumental grandeur and the deepest profundity of expression are contrasted by the innocence of birdsong with the recurrent call of the yellowhammer, a tranquil voice from nature amid kaleidoscopic Biblical themes.

Tom Winpenny, organ Hildesheimer Dom

Tom Winpenny
is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral where his duties include accompanying the daily choral services and directing the acclaimed Abbey Girls Choir. Previously, he was Sub-Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, and during this time he performed with the Cathedral Choir at the American Guild of Organists National Convention, performed in Mahler's Symphony no. 8 with Valery Gergiev and the LSO, and played for many great state occasions. He has also broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and been featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams.

He began organ lessons under John Scott Whiteley while a chorister at York Minster, and continued as a Music Scholar at Eton College under Alastair Sampson. After holding the post of Organ Scholar at Worcester Cathedral and then St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, he was for three years Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in music. With the Choir of King's College, he gave concerts in the USA, Hong Kong and throughout Europe, in addition to appearing as their accompanist on CD releases on EMI Classics.

He has taken part in the first performance of works by Sir John Tavener, Judith Bingham, Jonathan Dove, Francis Grier and Francis Pott. He has studied with Thomas Trotter and Johannes Geffert, and won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008 Miami International Organ Competition.

Recent and forthcoming engagements include recitals in Leeds Town Hall, Truro Cathedral, Stockholm Cathedral and in the USA in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Independence, Missouri. His solo organ recordings include a recital on the organ of St Albans Cathedral (JAV Recordings), organ works by Judith Bingham (Naxos) - including the first recording of the concerto Jacob's Ladder, and music by Charles Villiers Stanford, played on the organ of Queens' College, Cambridge (Resonus Classics). He also directs St Albans Abbey Girls Choir in a recently-released recording of Mendelssohn Choral Works (Naxos).

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