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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures: Episode 2

Episode 2

Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures, Episode 2

Penny Gore presents music by Caplet, Poulenc, Faure, Schmitt, Messiaen and Schoenberg.

Presented by Penny Gore. The focus on Messiaen and impressionism continues with music by Caplet, Poulenc, Faure, Schmitt, Messiaen and Schoenberg.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Afternoon on 3 continues its occasional series celebrating 100 years since the birth of Messiaen, which focuses on his music in the context of significant themes in French music history and this week examines one of France's most important contributions to Western classical music - Impressionism.

Messiaen relished the notion of painting pictures in music and, in particular, had a fasincation for portraying bird song and nature, continuing a tradition that goes back to Renaissance times and the French chansons.

Caplet: Inscriptions champetres
Poulenc: Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor)

Poulenc: Sinfonietta
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley (conductor)

Faure, orch. Rabaud: Dolly Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley (conductor)

Schmitt: Par le tempete, Op 40 No 2
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor)

Messiaen: Visions de l'amen for two pianos
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Schmitt: A Contre-Voix Six choruses for mixed voices, Op 104
BBC Singers
James Morgan (conductor)

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (arr. for string orchestra)
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures

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Music placing Messiaen in the context of significant themes in French music history

Music placing Messiaen in the context of significant themes in French music history and examining one of France's most important contributions to Western classical music - Impressionism

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