Eclairs sur l'au-delá, I/61
Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà... (Lightning Over the Beyond... ) is the final completed work of the composer Olivier Messiaen. Scored for a very large orchestra of over a hundred players and unusually lacking a solo piano part, it was written from 1988 to 1991.
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 150th anniversary in 1992, Éclairs was first performed by that orchestra at Lincoln Center with Zubin Mehta conducting on 5 November of the anniversary year, just over six months after the composer's death.
Movements
- Apparition du Christ glorieux
- La Constellation du Sagittaire
- L’Oiseau-lyre et la Ville-fiancée
- Les Élus marqués du sceau
- Demeurer dans l’Amour
- Les Sept Anges aux sept trompettes
- Et Dieu essuiera toute larme de leurs yeux
- Les Étoiles et la Gloire
- Plusieurs Oiseaux des arbres de Vie
- Le Chemin de l’Invisible
- Le Christ, lumière du Paradis