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Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony with pianist Yuja Wang

After Mozart's Prague Symphony, Yuja Wang joins the La Scala Orchestra and conductor Simone Young in Messiaen's epic Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Yuja Wang joins the La Scala Orchestra and Simone Young in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504 ('Prague')
Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
Yuja Wang, piano
Cécile Lartigau, ondes Martenot
La Scala Orchestra
Simone Young, conductor

'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. It is music that packs an extraordinary emotional punch.

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 9 Jan 2024 19:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 "Prague"

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Simone Young.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major Kk.380

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - Transformation.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalila Symphony

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Performer: Cecile Lartigau. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Simone Young.
  • Marcel Dupré

    15 Versets sur les Vepres de la Vierge, Op. 18: Ave maris stella III

    Performer: Robert Delcamp.
    • Dupre: Works for Organ, Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Ronald Center

    String Quartet No. 2

    Ensemble: The Fejes Quartet.
    • Ronald Center: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Volume Two: Complete String Quart.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 5-8.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Entrée de Polymnie (Les Boréades)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Enfers.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 23.

Broadcast

  • Tue 9 Jan 2024 19:30