Programme
- The Gorgeous Nothings(22 mins)Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere
- interval
- Turangalîla Symphony(77 mins)
Performers
- Steven Osbornepiano
- Cynthia Millarondes Martenot
- Nicholas Collonconductor
Composers
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 TurangaliÌ‚la Symphony. Nicholas Collon and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
Broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four and Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer this season
Image: The Swingles