Lili Boulanger - Psalm 24 "La terre appartient à l'Éternel"
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2016
- - Composer: Marie-Juliette Olga Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893 -- 15 March 1918)
- Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus
- Accompaniment: Simon Preston (organ)
- Conductor: Nadia Boulanger
- Year of recording: 1968
Psalm 24 for chorus, orchestra & organ, written in 1916.
Referring to Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24, Psalm 129 (1916), and Psalm 130 ("Du fond de l'abîme"; 1914-17), Christopher Palmer noted, "The composer's best work is to be found in the three psalm-settings; together they form a triptych of epic proportions." With those works, Vieille Prière Bouddhique (1917), and Pie Jesu [uploaded on this channel], dictated on her deathbed to her sister Nadia Boulanger, in 1918, deserve to be included. While their power and originality are startling -- especially emanating from a frail and chronically ill young woman who died at 24 -- and there is no denying Boulanger's precocious genius, those final masterpieces emerged from a background of unpublished choral Psalm settings made between 1907 and 1909, that is, beginning in her 14th year, if not earlier.
Using the Psalmist as the mouthpiece for a startling truculence was not new -- Florent Schmitt's gargantuan Psaume 47, dating from 1904, is the fountainhead of the genre, while the figure of Salomé, whether in Strauss' opera (1905) or Schmitt's incidental music-cum-symphonic poem (1907-1910), led the way to the gamy expressive possibilities of hoary Biblical lore seen through contemporary eyes and garlanded with quasi-oriental glees. Boulanger was au courant and certainly knew those works, but a certain fastidiousness, a taste for Debussy-esque atmospherics, and -- above all -- a mystical vein emerging in glowing contrast to often strident trenchancy lift her music beyond the realm of hot musical properties and blockbuster crudities to a demesne of the incisively exquisite.
Psalm 24, for instance, justifies its brevity by the potent succinctness of its ideas. Drums setting off clamorous fanfares highlight declamatory choral assertions of godly authority ("The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein...") before yielding to a brief but ecstatic tenor solo ("He will receive blessing from the Lord, and vindication from the God of his salvation") whose serene promise of benediction conveys a sense of imminent expectation. The note of martial triumphalism returns for one of the grandest passages of the Psalms -- "Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts...." This is worked to a brief -- again, succinct -- conclusion rounded with a conventional cadence. The obverse faces of the divine, majesty and beneficence, are suggested by the sparest of forces, those instruments usually accompanying French worship: drums, brass, harps, and organ. - Hudba
This is the piece that introduced me to Lilli Boulanger. I'll never forget the power, the might of this music.
I sit here behind my desktop and am completely overwhelmed by this composition. Don't know what to say, it is just heavenly. Thank you Lili Boulanger and the person who uploaded this.
Graag gedaan Mr. Robijns. Kent u haar Pie Jesu ook? En haar muziek is prachtig inderdaad!
Pie Jesu, betoverend. Eindelijk niet zo'n "gelikte, melodramatische" melodie, maar een zangstem, huilend en smekend om erbarmen, niet denkend aan de cliché intervallen. Menselijk verdriet en smekend. De orkestratie is die van haar? In beide gevallen meesterlijk gedaan. Prachtige orgelpartij en die versluierde strijkers !! Ik zet dit antwoord ook bij Pie Jesu zelf......
One has an immediate sympathy for this young, gifted composer who was the sister of the great teacher. If I'm not wrong everyone from Philip Glass to Elliot Carter studied with Nadia (Barber, Copland, etc., etc.). It's sad that Lili Boulanger had such a short life, there is so much promise. Of the two it's said that Nadia thought her sister had the greater talent. Thanks for the upload, thoughtful as usual.
+Charles McHugh They were an ideal couple, in a way. Nadia the great teacher, Lili the great composer. Very sad that Lili passed away so early indeed...
Mozart's early music didn't sound nearly as mature and forward-looking as Lili Boulanger...just imagine what she might have done with a dozen more years to live. Such a tragic loss.
... Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger were teachers of Elliot Goldenthal - one of the contemporary big composers!
@@dionbaillargeon4899 How so? This piece isn't forward-looking at all. For its time, it is conservative harmonically and intentionally looks back to early Baroque church music, the way that Orff did in something like Carmina Burana. Furthermore, she has very little influence on the history of Western music whereas Mozart had already reinvented the piano concerto with K. 271 by the time he was 21. She was 23 when this was written. Maturity? Mozart wrote K. 183 when he was 17 years old and already sounds like a completely mature composer and the piece is considered a masterpiece that is programmed by orchestras all the time. They even play K. 16 from time to time, the work of a nine year old. The work is interesting and nice to listen to, but especially considering the historical contexts in which they were writing, your comment makes little sense.
if she had had the chance to discover serialism, the things she would have done
Lili Boulanger was a genius
Oeuvre magnifique...
Glad to see you uploading again. Not to mention a wonderful piece!
Holy heck this is AMAZING!! It’s like being given a tour of a highly esteemed extravagant temple in a capital with all the priests and temple caretakers at work! It’s awesome!
The music captures the spirit of this marvelous Psalm perfectly.
her final measures are always so grandiose and beautiful
Wundervoll, das Tenorsolo!
Majesically, professional choral writing!
Grandiös! Wunderschön ❣️👍👏
la terre appartient à la terre... beau piece!
+fred puccino Haha merci :)
Admiro esta composición a la luz del pensamiento de Lili. Lo escucho con delectación y no puedo dejar de pensar que ella muriera tan joven.
Beautiful
BEAUTIFUL ! MANY THANKS @olla-vogala ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Holy moly!🤯
Marvellieusse!
So sad she died so young
Sublime
The tenor solo part in this recording was sung by Hughes Cuenod?
Thank you very much for uploading this. I'm not sure if you take requests, but if you do, I was wondering if you could upload the score for Milhaud's Chamber Symphonies. Either way, keep up the good work!
+Chinyere Obasi Did you see my latest video? There's a bit of a problem with my channel, but I'll put them on my list (for the future)!
olla-vogala Sorry, I forgot. I thought that because the first symphony is only 4 minutes long, it wouldn't be a problem.
Chinyere Obasi
Well, I think I can make a video for the 1st symphony then :)
olla-vogala Just for your information, I think all of the chamber symphonies by Milhaud are under 10 minutes. (Sorry if I sound pushy)
+olla-vogala Do you make money off this? If so, how? I have uploaded Dvorak's Cello Concerto with a score, but it is copyrighted.
Epic orchestra. Look like chinese legend battle soundtrack.
3:40 so good 😍
Is it strange that tgis reminds me of Janacek? I'd think the two had nothing to do with eachother
really nothing, no...
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☝️ Full score video if u want.
Thank you!
Quasimodo's Jam!
1 La terre appartient à l'Éternel et tout ce qui s'y trouve, la terre habitable et ceux qui l'habitent.
2 Car Il l'a fondée sur les mers, et l'a établie sur les fleuves.
1 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it;
2 for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.
3 Qui est-ce qui montera à la montagne de l'Éternel, et qui est-ce qui demeurera au lieu de sa sainteté,
4 ce sera l'homme qui a les mains pures, et le cœur net, dont l'âme n'est point portée à la fausseté et qui ne jure point pour tromper.
5 Il recevra la bénédiction de l'Éternel et la justice de Dieu son sauveur.
6 Telle est la génération de ceux qui Le cherchent, qui cherchent Ta face en Jacob.
3 Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?
4 Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false, and do not swear deceitfully.
5 They will receive blessing from the Lord, and vindication from the God of their salvation.
6 Such is the company of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
7 Portes, élevez vos têtes, portes éternelles, haussez-vous, et le Roi de gloire entrera.
8 Qui est ce Roi de gloire ? C'est l'Éternel fort et puissant dans les combats.
9 Portes, élevez vos têtes, élevez-vous aussi, portes éternelles; Et le Roi de gloire entrera.
10 Qui est ce Roi de gloire ? C'est l'Éternel des armées, c'est Lui qui est le Roi de gloire. Éternel.
7 Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Boulanger Make bread
Not music