Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Again, RMJ had interesting things to say about the star the other day and, especially the deeper meaning of the text in Matthew than the Sunday School pageant - listen to it once a year in church reading of it gives. Messiaen's disruptive, even ominous second movement, Vision of the Star might twinkle but there's a lot more going on in it than that.
I've wondered which of the translations of regards to use, I think "vision" is probably close without being accurate, as far as I can see, Messiaen wasn't exactly clear as to whether we should literally take these as being things seen. Maybe something more like "understanding" is close, like Julian of Norwich's "shewings". Seen with the mind with both insight and understanding and understanding both are limited, a job for music without words.
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