YouTube: doing it wrong
Jun. 9th, 2009 09:21 pmAt the risk, then, of compounding my error, here's a nice fast performance of Messiaen's astonishingly difficult Les Yeux dans les Roues from Livre d'Orgue.
The piece is a based on a particularly vivid vision from the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel:
1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.