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BBC Proms

2008

Prom 6: Messiaen and Saint-Saens

Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

To mark the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen's birth, Charles Hazlewood introduces a concert in which organist Olivier Latry performs Messiaen's solo work L'Ascension and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under conductor Myung-Whun Chung, perform the monumental Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. The concert concludes with Camille Saint-Saens's exuberant Organ Symphony. Show less

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