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Timothy Parsons - Assistant Director of Music, Exeter Cathedral plays Joie et clarté des Corps Glorieux VI by Olivier Messiaen on the Hauptwerk/Pipe organ at Nichols Nymet House, North Tawton, Devon U.K. using the sample set of the 1885 Cavaille-Coll Organ at St. Etienne Abbey in Caen France.


A unison, rhapsodic theme in the upper voice, interrupted by three chords played in the récit, is heard at the beginning of the movement over a receding fifth in the pedal. This is followed by a quieter middle section, in which the Cromorne of the Positif and the Hautbois of the Récit correspond. The main and middle sections alternate with each other, followed by the coda, which shows the main part rhythmically slightly changed. The so-called "Freudenmotiv" then breaks off spectacularly and the movement ends with a virtuosic glissando.

The subtitle of this movement reads: "Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their father." (Matthew 13:43)