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Rhythm of Life: Kirill Karabits conducts Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie

Rhythm of Life: Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bizet's Symphony in C and Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie.

Live from the Lighthouse, Poole

Presented by Martin Handley

Rhythm of Life: Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Bizet and Messiaen.

Bizet: Symphony in C

8.05: Interval

Messiaen: TurangalΓ®la-symphonie

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

In TurangalΓ®la, named from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lΓ®la, 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.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Wed 4 Oct 2017 19:30
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Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 33:36

  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.

  • Interval

    Duration: 18:33

  • Franz Schubert

    Variations on an original theme in A flat major, D 813

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Franz Schubert Piano Duets; Steven Osbourne / Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Part 2

    Duration: 01:32:23

  • Olivier Messiaen

    TurangalΓ®la Symphony

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.

  • Post-comcert

    Duration: 08:27

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    L'Heure Exquise arr. violin & piano

    Performer: Nathalia Milstein. Performer: Maria Milstein.
    • The Vinteuil Sonata.
    • Mirare.
    • MIR384.

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Performer Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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  • Wed 4 Oct 2017 19:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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