Olivier Messiaen

(1908-92)

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Harawi

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mode 310/11  Olivier MESSIAEN:  Harawi (chant d’amour et de mort) — Sarah Maria Sun, soprano. Stefka Perifanova, piano.

2-LP set $37.49

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Harawi (mode310/311) by Olivier Messiaen

 

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Harawi

Sarah Maria Sun, soprano
Stefka Perifanova, piano

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Harawi is a cycle of twelve songs scored for soprano and piano composed in 1945. Harawi (known to Spanish speakers as yaraví) designates a song about a fated love that ends in the death of both lovers. Messiaen remarked that “it is the story of Tristan and Isolde.”

The surrealistic text of Harawi is Messiaen’s own. Using the musical structures Messiaen had created for Harawi, he built massive phrases in these songs, expanding space and time, creating extreme tenderness, vastness, clarity and abysses.

In Harawi both lovers are not only human, but beings, which transform again and again. Destruction, pain, death, creation, joy, dance and love are not final — they are all ever changing particles of our interwoven cosmic existence.

• Deluxe, specially priced 2-LP set with gatefold cover

• Includes 12-page book with complete lyrics plus extensive text on Harawi by Siglind Bruhn, including copious illustrations and musical examples

• Complete song texts included

• Pressed by Pallas in Germany

• NOTE: there is no CD format release, only the 2-LP set and digital

• The only recording of Harawi currently available on LP

Liner notes by Siglind Bruhn and Sarah Maria Sun.