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BirminghamMessiaen's Turangalîla Symphony
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Ilan Volkov; Steven Osborne; Nathalie Forget
BirminghamCentre Stage: Quartet for the End of Time with Steven Osborne
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Steven Osborne; CBSO Musicians
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Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival
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.
Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade
In the CBSO Benevolent Fund concert, the orchestra tells the timeless story, set in Persia, of Scheherazade who, through her storytelling, brings about peace.
Heft and delicacy: Philharmonia makes Lammermuir Festival debut
Bringing the Philharmonia is the most ambitious thing the Lammermuir Festival has ever done, yet it felt like a natural next step for a festival that's growing in stature.
Gardner and the LPO scale Alpine heights with majestic ease
Majestic Strauss and effortless Grieg from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Exquisite Mozart from Steven Osborne with the Ulster Orchestra
Championing British musicm the Ulster Orchestra also performs a seldom heard work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
The stars shine brightly: Morlot conducts Messiaen in Manchester
In a rare performance of Des Canyons aux étoiles, Ludovic Morlot and Steven Osborne plunge the depths of Utah’s canyons and ascend to celestial plains.