Kirill Karabits conducts Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie - 4.10.17

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

7.30 p.m.
Radio 3 in Concert

Live from the Lighthouse, Poole

Bizet: Symphony in C
Messiaen: Turangalîla-symphonie

Cynthia Millar, Ondes Martinot
Steven Osborne, piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor

In Turangalîla, named from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, meaning roughly 'time' and 'love', Messiaen wanted to create a "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death." This inventive piece is like no other - a work of huge structural scope that strives to convey, from most tender to most wild, its basic theme: love.

By contrast, written in a single month, Bizet's polished gem of a symphony is remarkable not so much for its originality, but for its skilful reworking of others' designs. It is a brilliant work that shows a grasp of unity and overall design that was remarkable for a seventeen-year old composer.

[BBMmk2]

So many good concerts coming up! looking forward to this one!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So many good concerts coming up!

Yes! and I've made it my Academic Year Resolution to carry on as though the Proms had never finished. It's so easy to forget that concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 throughout the year, and for three quarters of the annual cycle, they don't keep harping on ad nauseam about the "BBC Proms" (and they don't clap between movements).

[Darkbloom]

Yes! and I've made it my Academic Year Resolution to carry on as though the Proms had never finished. It's so easy to forget that concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 throughout the year, and for three quarters of the annual cycle, they don't keep harping on ad nauseam about the "BBC Proms" (and they don't clap between movements).

Thank you for doing this, it's very helpful. There are some there that I would probably have missed if it wasn't for your listings.

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank you for doing this, it's very helpful. There are some there that I would probably have missed if it wasn't for your listings.

Second the motion

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So many good concerts coming up! looking forward to this one!

So am I - they're bringing this exact programme to Leeds on the Saturday night. I've got my ticket

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Second the motion

+ 1

Many. many thanks, Alpie.

[mercia]

I wonder if Cynthia Millar ever gets bored playing this piece

[BBMmk2]

Yes! and I've made it my Academic Year Resolution to carry on as though the Proms had never finished. It's so easy to forget that concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 throughout the year, and for three quarters of the annual cycle, they don't keep harping on ad nauseam about the "BBC Proms" (and they don't clap between movements).

This has not gone unnoticed, EA! A very welcome contribution for the dedicated service, people like you on this forum give us. many thanks.

[Conchis]

This programme is being repeated by the BSO in Leeds on Saturday (7th). I have a spare (free) ticket, if anyone's interested.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So am I - they're bringing this exact programme to Leeds on the Saturday night. I've got my ticket

This programme is being repeated by the BSO in Leeds on Saturday (7th). I have a spare (free) ticket, if anyone's interested.

Not "cause and effect", I hope, Conchis?

[BBMmk2]

I hope they play better than they did at the proms this year. My view of their concert, seemed rather singular, at the time.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I only managed to hear the Bizet from last night's broadcast - but the gloriously joyful performance of that wonderfully life-enhancing work made me all the keener for the Leeds gig on Saturday night!

[Bryn]

Planning on listening via the iPlayer later this morning. From the snippets I caught last night the wind playing sounded blandly unidiomatic in the Messiaen. Let's hope listening to the whole thing will change that perception.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I wonder if Cynthia Millar ever gets bored playing this piece

She's probably been doing it a long time if my ears weren't deceiving me driving to work today. Some time around 8.30 on R3 we were given a Stokowski Telemann transcription conducted by the maestro and featuring Ms Millar on ondes martenot!

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