by Olivier Messiaen
(first UK performance) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Three tableaux from Messiaen's only stage work - his opera on the life of St Francis , first performed in Paris in 1983 JEANNE LORIOD (ondes Martenot) VALERIE H ARTMANN-CLAVERIE (ondes Martenot)
DOMINIQUE kim (ondes Martenot) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus director GARETH MORRELL
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Seiji Ozawa
Tableau 3: Le baiser au lepreux Tableau 7: Les stigmates Tableau 8: La mort et la nouvelle vie
(A Royal Philharmonic Society concert given in association with ElfAquitaine. UK)