Name: Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony
Start: 2024-07-30
End: 2024-07-30
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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BBC Proms

Conductor

Nicholas Collon

Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Instrumentalist

Steven Osborne

Piano

Cynthia Millar

Ondes Martenot

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Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

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The Gorgeous Nothings

Turangalîla-Sinfonie

Paul Koneri

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Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony: The Gorgeous Nothings Clyne (+1 More)

About This Event
The composer and critic Virgil Thomson described Olivier Messiaen’s music as ‘convulsive, ecstatic, cataclysmic, terrifying and unreal’. All converge in the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony. Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic perform a work that opens up the heavens even as it brings down the house, after the tantalising prospect of a world premiere by Anna Clyne. The Gorgeous Nothings, written specially for the Proms, is the composer’s response to the ‘spellbinding wordsmithery’ of American poet Emily Dickinson, scored for orchestra, amplified voices and real-time electronic processing.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer this season

English

Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony by Clyne, Messiaen, Tue 30 Jul 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Nicholas Collon, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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