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Proms 2024
30 Jul 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony

Prom 15
Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony
19:30 Tue 30 Jul 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Nicholas Collon and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic perform the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century, Messiaen’s Turangalîla, after the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings, written specially for the Proms
Nicholas Collon and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic perform the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century, Messiaen’s Turangalîla, after the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings, written specially for the Proms

Programme

      • The Gorgeous Nothings(22 mins)Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere
        • interval
        • Turangalîla Symphony(77 mins)

    Performers

    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