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Radio 3 in Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2015

Radio 3 in Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2015: Episode 4: Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz's Requiem

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Episode 4: Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz's Requiem

Edinburgh International Festival 2015

Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz's Requiem

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in Berlioz's Requiem

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus perform Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival.

In the final concert broadcast from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, a performance of one of the most sonorous of choral works: Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts.
Written on a vast scale for a vast orchestra, it is a truly innovative and compelling work with the massed voices of the chorus at its centre. Epic and demanding - suitably grand for the Edinburgh Festival Chorus's 50th-year celebrations - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a fortified Philharmonia Orchestra through the score's unique orchestral colours, joined by tenor Lawrence Brownlee for the Requiem's majestic Sanctus.

Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Berlioz: Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts)

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Edinburgh Festival Chorus (chorus master Christopher Bell)
The Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor.

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Music performed in the Usher Hall as part of the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival

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