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BBC Symphony Orchestra - Messiaen

Live at the Barbican, BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo in Messiaen: L'Ascension and Turangalila-Symphonie, with Steven Osborne (piano) and Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot).

Live from the Barbican Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Messiaen's L'Ascension and Turangalîla Symphony with Steven Osborne, piano, and Cynthia Miller, ondes martenot.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Messiaen: L'Ascension

07.55 Interval

08.15
Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony

Steven Osborne (piano)
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

BBC Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conducts a double-bill from 20th-century musical genius and visionary, Olivier Messiaen.
The French composer's gargantuan Turangalîla Symphony is a vibrant and colourful celebration of all-consuming love, loosely based on the Tristan and Isolde story, and features a prominent part for piano and the electronic ondes martenot. It is preceded here by Messiaen's four sacred meditations for orchestra, L'Ascension.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 May 201719:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Olivier Messiaen

      L'Ascension

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Interval

    • Claude Debussy

      Three Preludes from Book One

      Performer: Steven Osborne.

  • Part 2

    • Olivier Messiaen

      Turangalila Symphony

      Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Post-concert

    • Thomas Adès

      The Four Quarters 1st mvt Nightfalls

      Ensemble: Calder Quartet.

Credit

PerformerBBC Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 May 201719:30
    BBC Radio 3