Sakari Oramo conducts Messiaen

24 May 2017, Barbican, London

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成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2016-17 season Sakari Oramo conducts Messiaen

Sakari Oramo conducts Messiaen

19:30 Wed 24 May 2017 Barbican, London

Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conducts a double-bill from 20th-century musical genius and visionary, Olivier Messiaen.

Programme

- - Olivier Messiaen
  - L' Ascension (orchestral version)
  - Turangal卯la Symphony

Performers

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor
Steven Osborne
piano
piano
Cynthia Millar
ondes martenot
ondes martenot

Composers

Olivier Messiaen

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成人快手 Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conducts a double-bill from 20th-century musical genius and visionary, Olivier Messiaen.

His gargantuan Turangal卯la Symphony is a vibrant and colourful celebration of all-consuming love, loosely based on the Tristan and Isolde story. It is preceded here by Messiaen鈥檚 four sacred meditations for orchestra, L鈥橝scension.

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