Name: Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony
Start: 2024-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Dirigat

Nicholas Collon

Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Instrument

Steven Osborne

Klavier

Cynthia Millar

Ondes Martenot

Others

The Swingles

Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorium / Orchestral

The Gorgeous Nothings

Turangalîla-Symphonie

Paul Koneri

Genehmigt

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

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Ensemble