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Saint Francois d'Assise

BBC Radio 3
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Four tableaux from Messiaen's three-act epic opera on the life of St Francis of Assisi
(sung in French: first UK broadcast)
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHOIR
AUSTRIAN RADIO CHOIR AND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by LOTHAR ZAGROSEK Tableau 3:
St Francis kisses the leper Tableau 6:
He preaches to the birds
10.35* Interval Reading
10.40* Tableau 7: The stigmata Tableau 8:
Death and the new life
(Austrian Radio recording from the 1985 Salzburg Festival)
(Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings St Francis with the BBC Singers,
Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in the UK premiere of tableaux from Messiaen opera at the Royal
Philharmonic Society Concert at the RFH on 26 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Schoenberg
Conducted By:
Lothar Zagrosek
Source: Radio Times

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