Olivier Messiaen's Trinity Meditations #9036

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Meditations sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinité - Meditations on the Mysteries of the Holy Trinity [1969]

Part 1

•        i.  The Father of the Stars

•       ii.  The Holiness of God

•      iii.  The Essence of God

•      iv.  The Overpowering Concept of God: HE IS [not included in this broadcast]

•       v.  The Divine Attributes

Part 2

•       vi.  Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity

•      vii.  The Love of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit

•     viii.  The Simplicity of God

•       ix.  I am Who I Am

This overwhelming and provocative music was premiered by the composer in 1972 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Through a unique tonal vocabulary, Messiaen transports us to an unworldly place of sound in space. Dr. Tompkins’ performance, the work’s Midwestern premiere, was given on the 1927 E.M. Skinner & 1963 Aeolian-Skinner organs of the Cathedral of Saint Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota, recorded May 16, 1986