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This entire piece is pure cash money. I performed this in a Mass about 8 years ago and suddenly understood the potential of, for lack of a better term, "liturgical jazz." Just...incredible.

most beautiful music ever

Yes, Messiaen is good. I very much like his hormonies. What mode is this? Spendid singing to you singers. If I could be in a heaven with God, I would like to hear his package. Truly regards to you, sanks

His gorgeous symmetry comes to life in an array of metaphysical atmospheres.

olivier messiaen is certainly the last great catholic composer. his devotion to the glory of Christ, and his unique way to proclaim the gospel through his compositions is truly uplifting. i firmly believe his success was a result of his devotion to Jesus. even when faced with the desolation of his country and his imprisonment by the nazis he never gave up his hope in Christ, exemplified in his quartet for the end of times. as a consequence of his devotion, i often wonder if messiaen has joined God and His great family as a great saint of the Lord.

Harmonically ebbing and flowing in intensity and rhythmic changes are unique. It stands alone as a composition of utter genius.

isn't it something when a piece leaves you completely destroyed, tears flowing down your face.

In addition to Messiaen's distinctly unique harmonies and the arc-like character of the soprano melody, the irregular dotted note rhythm in each measure provides a continuous suspense keeping the listener riveted.

Idk man something about the harmony in this piece gives me chills every single time without fail. It’s so strange and mysterious but intensely beautiful and serene at the same time

Best short choir peace in 20th century. I love it

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I can hear where vangelis took inspiration for blade runner's soundtrack

fabulous!

I was privileged to perform this piece when I was in a choir at the IU School of Music. I sang the bass line. It's nice to hear how it all sounded from the front of the choir. I don't know about the other parts, but Messiaen made sure that even with all the dissonance, my part was astoninishinly easy to sing.

This is the first time I'm hearing the original, after only being exposed to Fabio Costa's amazing rendition for 4 EWIs (Electronic Wind Instrument) tuned to 19 equal divisions of the octave. Really beautiful piece, each rendition has its own charm and way of shining through. Thank you Mr. Costa

fiiting how "messia" is literally in his name

I want to write choral music like this.

Whoa, crazy! The progression is crazy! The tone is crazy! (Translation: "I like it!")

shit

I used to adore when the chamber choir I belonged to would be performing this. (I was an alto). It is so spine-tinglingly exquisite and so cleverly constructed.

I have sung this piece--I did not realize that it was composed long before I was born.

Good music 10/10 bro

O sacrum convivium O sacrum convivium! in quo Christus sumitur: recolitur memoria passionis ejus: mens impletur gratia: et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur. Alleluia.

O sacred banquet O sacred banquet! in which Christ is received, the memory of his Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace and a pledge of future glory to us is given. Alleluia

Karl Jenkins has a similar sound sometimes, interesting

Lovely!

This gives me the same feeling as Neptune by Gustav Holst. Odd, odd, odd.

Too weird for me. I am a chorister myself....

lateinisch O sacrum convivium, in quo Christus sumitur: recolitur memoria passionis eius, mens impletur gratia et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur. Alleluia. deutsch O heiliges Gastmahl, bei dem Christus verzehrt wird: Das Gedächtnis seines Leidens wird erneuert, der Geist wird erfüllt mit Gnade und uns wird ein Pfand der zukünftigen Herrlichkeit gegeben. Halleluja.

Kool

thanks ben monder

that "halleljujah" phrase get me chills everytime. its like angels coming down from heaven.

Tip: you should listen to this at 3:30 AM, either inside a coat closet or a car parked at a remote location (that is, if you don't have access to an anechoic chamber)

So beautiful. Just stunning!!

Transcendental

Anyone not moved to tears by this should check their pulse ... just kidding, but what beauty

I first heard this many years ago in a concert in Swaffham Prior, just outside Cambridge. The advance publicity mentioned Messiaen, a composer I find fascinating, but I never expected this. I am trying to organise a way of playing this last thing at night in my bedroom: I think it would make a very effective lullaby.

Jonny Greenwood was here.

We practiced this song daily for a high school choir competition. That was 42 years ago and this song still haunts me in a good way. Being an immature schnitzel, I referred to it as Rockem Sacrum Convivium.

holy crap what a masterpiece

Very beautiful

Mmm... Messiaen.

In the fall of 2018 I was going through a very rough time in my life and I used to cover myself in my bedsheets and listen to this, it brought me comfort for some reason. Messiaen has helped me more than he knows.

I'm not one for favorites, but this is the best piece of music written

Learn more about the life story of this wonderful composer, on our blog: www.der-leiermann.com/en/olivier-messiaen-a-blackbird-for-the-flutist/

L-o-v-e-l-y

This is going to sound sacreligous but I really think the return to the home key with the chromaticism in the bass is lazy. It doesn’t reflect the standard of the rest of the composition. *ducks from trolls*

beginning part oozes scriabin

I’m obsessed with the last chord of this piece, I hear a mid g sharp but there isn’t one on the sheet music. I love that Messiaen didn’t include the g sharp because it makes it sound so faint and you can hear it in the overtones and it produces such a cool effect. I might just be crazy though lol.

Outstanding beautiful. That's what Art supposes to be.