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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: Exoticism

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: Exoticism: Episode 3

Episode 3

Towards Messiaen: Exoticism

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Towards Messiaen: Exoticism, Episode 3

Penny Gore presents a work by Milhaud as well as Messiaen's Des canyons aux etoiles.

Penny Gore with Milhaud's Carnaval a la Nouvelle Orleans (Orietta Caianiello, Antonio Sardi de Letto, pianos) and Messiaen: Des canyons aux etoiles (Jean-Frederic Neuberger, piano).

Presented by Penny Gore.

Milhaud: Carnaval a la Nouvelle Orleans
Orietta Caianiello (piano)
Antonio Sardi de Letto (piano)

Messiaen: Des canyons aux etoiles 
Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano)
Liege Philharmonic Orchestra
Pascal Rophe (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Towards Messiaen: Exoticism

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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Music placing Messiaen in the conxtext of French musical themes, focusing on exoticism

Music placing Messiaen's music in the context of important themes in French musical history, with a focus on exoticism

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