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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: Rattle conducts Messiaen

Rattle conducts Messiaen

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Rattle conducts Messiaen

Sir Simon Rattle conducts music by Messaien and Betsy Jolas.

Sir Simon Rattle ends his final Barbican concert as LSO music director with Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Sir Simon Rattle ends his final Barbican concert as LSO Music Director with Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, joined by two of his oldest musical collaborators – pianist Peter Donohoe and Ondes-Martenot player Cynthia Millar.

'Joy in the blood of the stars’ – Olivier Messiaen

In Turangalîla, named from two Sanskrit words, turanga and lîla, meaning roughly 'time' and 'love', Messiaen wanted to create a "love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death." This inventive piece is like no other - a work of huge structural scope that strives to convey, from most tender to most wild, its basic theme: love. Betsy Jolas’ music is more understated – but it still packs a tremendous emotional punch.

Betsy Jolas: Ces belles années …  

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie

Faustine de Monès, soprano 
Peter Donohoe, piano
Cynthia Millar, Ondes Martenot
London Symphony Orchestra 
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

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