“Turangalîlá is a Sanskrit word, … very rich in meanings. Lîlá literally means a game, but game in the sense of divine workings in the cosmos, the game of creation, destruction and reconstruction, the game of life and death. Lîlá is also Love. Turanga is time that flies like a galloping horse, time that runs out like sand from an hourglass. Turanga is movement and rhythm. Hence Turangalîlá means altogether: song of love, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death,” writes the composer about the title of what he thinks is “a vast polyphony of time, of rhythm”. The sequence of ten movements does not have a linear plot; instead, it is a succession of surrealistic meditations on love and death. The work has three “protagonists”: the symphonic orchestra, the solo piano and the ondes Martenot.