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DortmundMahler Chamber Orchestra – Messiaen Turangalîla-Sinfonie

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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Ingo Metzmacher; Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Nathalie Forget

BirminghamMessiaen's Turangalîla Symphony

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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Ilan Volkov; Steven Osborne; Nathalie Forget

BergenTurangalîla-Symphonie

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Wagner, Messiaen
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen; Bertrand Chamayou; Cécile Lartigau
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Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

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Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival. 
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A cerebral bacchanalia: Young's bold, brainy Messiaen at Disney Hall

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Simone Young's take on Messiaen's Turangalîla with the Los Angeles Philharmonic proves a night to remember.
*****
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A golden Turangalîla to celebrate the Brighton Philharmonic’s 100th

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Joanna MacGregor and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra bring their 100th season to a triumphant conclusion at the Brighton Dome. 
****1
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Clyne and Messiaen from Collon and the BBC Philharmonic

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Steven Osborne was lucid and detailed in his interpretation, lighting the technical fireworks as appropriate and seductive in the long and languid sixth movement, Jardin du sommeil d’amour.
****1
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Joy of the Blood of the Stars: Rattle fixed in the LSO firmament

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Betsy Jolas delivers a farewell gift – at 96, her own final orchestral work – to Sir Simon Rattle on the occasion of his final Barbican concerts as the LSO's Music Director. 
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Toronto Symphony burns down the barn with Messiaen's Turangalîla

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Gustavo Gimeno, Marc-André Hamelin and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra raise the roof with Messiaen’s epic – and eclectic – Turangalîla-Symphonie.
****1
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Mälkki makes her mark in Saariaho, missed in Messiaen

Mälkki triumphs in the subtleties of Saariaho, stumbles in the ecstasies of Messiaen. 
***11
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