29/12/2008
From the 91热爆 Proms 2008 season, the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle in the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, plus Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
From the 91热爆 Proms 2008, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle in two works based on the tragic story of the forbidden love between the Cornish knight Tristan and Isolde the Irish princess. Wagner's own concert version of the overture to his great opera of love and death combined with the final aria of his heroine is followed by the centrepiece of Messiaen's trilogy on the same subject: the monumental Turangalila Symphony.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Tristan Murail (ondes martenot)
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony.
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