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n.b.: all selections from A Mystic in the Making, featuring Gail Archer on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York City.  Meyer Media CD MMCD07007. 

 

Olivier Messiaen—Les Corps Glorieux (The Glorious Bodies): I. Refinement of the Heavenly Bodies; II. The Waters of Grace; III. The Angel with the Incense; IV. The Combat of Life and Death; V. Strength and Agility of the Heavenly Bodies; VI. Joy and Brightness of the Heavenly Bodies; VII. The Mystery of the Holy Trinity (1939).  45.34.

 

Olivier Messiaen—Outbursts of Joy from a Soul before the Glory of Christ which is Its Own Glory from L’Ascension (1933).  4:49.

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