A Private Music Lesson with Yvonne Loriod

Jan 1, 1991

0h 57m

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Overview

Yvonne Loriod was not only an incredible performer of the music of her time, but also Olivier Messiaen's muse, the one in whom and for whom he found the natural and concrete extension of his art, of his inspiration. This documentary is a beautiful testament to what this great artist represented.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

ARTE

Com'unimage

La Sept

Radio France

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Cast

Self

Yvonne Loriod

Self

Olivier Messiaen

Self

Nicholas Angelich

Self

Kei Saotome

Self

Roger Muraro

Self

Yoko Kaneko

Self

Masaaki Yasuda

The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of whom are outsiders to the church and do not know what they're hearing-put Messiaen's project to the test: Is it possible to portray, through time-bound, invisible sound, the spiritual, the architectural, the eternal? The result is a collective interpretation improvising its way through an aesthetic landscape defined by violent contradictions. Resolution abuts eternity, eroticism asceticism, spiritual ecstasy physical torture. Together, the music and its interpreters conjure something like what William Blake famously called the marriage of heaven and hell.

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