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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 69

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The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Messiaen's dramatic Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly in their second Prom perform Messiaen's dramatic 1964 memorial to the dead of two world wars, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, and Mahler's 6th Symphony which is a similarly wide-ranging soundscape moving from death-portending hammer-blows to alpine cow-bells. It also contains one of Mahler's most glorious slow movements.

Together with the Turangalila Symphony, Messiaen's Et Expecto is one of his most often performed orchestral works. It is on a vast canvas with a wide dynamic range, full of orchestral effects and apocalyptic gongs. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is one of the oldest symphony orchestras in the world. Riccardo Chially has been their conductor since 2005.

Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 69

Prom 69

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.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in music by Messiaen and Mahler

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