Olivier Messiaen
Harawi (2LP)
Tracked express shipping from Italy, no customs or import VAT in the EU. Shipping costs
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, pressed by Pallas in Germany. Includes a 12-page book with complete lyrics plus extensive text on Harawi by Siglind Bruhn, including copious illustrations and musical examples. Liner notes by Siglind Bruhn and Sarah Maria Sun.
Sarah Maria Sun, soprano
Stefka Perifanova, piano
Format
- 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
Release notes
Includes a 12-page booklet with lyrics, art, and analysis of the music, and a download card. Tracks are numbered sequentially and listed on the LP stickers as Harawi N-M, per side. Runouts are etched, except for -46739- and -48340-, which are stamped.
| Harawi | |||
| A1 | La Ville Qui Dormait, Toi | 2:28 | |
| A2 | Bonjour Toi, Colombe Verte | 3:34 | |
| A3 | Montagnes | 3:30 | |
| A4 | Doundou Tchil | 4:22 | |
| A5 | L’Amour De Piroutcha | 4:40 | |
| B6 | Répétition Planétaire | 6:32 | |
| B7 | Adieu | 8:00 | |
| C8 | Syllabes | 6:16 | |
| C9 | L’Escalier Redit, Gestes Du Soleil | 6:41 | |
| D10 | Amour Oiseau D’Étoile | 5:06 | |
| D11 | Katchikatchi Les Étoiles | 2:01 | |
| D12 | Dans Le Noir | 7:23 | |
- Florie Valiquette
- Advisor [Pronunciation Adviser]
- Siglind Bruhn
- Booklet Editor, Liner Notes, Liner Notes, Translated By [Translation of Siglind Bruhn's Analysis]
- Sarah Maria Sun
- Booklet Editor, Liner Notes, Soprano Vocals, Producer, Translated By [Translation of song texts]
- Olivier Messiaen
- Composed By
- Brian Brandt
- Executive-Producer, Art Direction
- MD
- Lacquer Cut By
- Rüdiger Schestag
- Photography By [Cover photos]
- Stefka Perifanova
- Piano
- Mathias Schneider-Hollek
- Producer, Engineer
