Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
John Foulds – Three Mantras
~ Interval ~
Olivier Messiaen – Turangalîla Symphony
Performers
Juanjo Mena – Conductor
Steven Osborne – piano
Valérie Hartmann-Claverie – ondes martenot
London Symphony Chorus (Women's voices)
BBC Philharmonic
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Programme Note
Hindu philosophy is the guiding thread through this Prom of music by one of the 20th century’s undisputed masters and one of its neglected mavericks. Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony translates the ‘curious, exquisite, unexpected melodic contours’ of the Hindu tradition for Western ears. John Foulds’s music was heavily influenced by his spiritual fascination with India; his style shifts in his Three Mantras from the rhythmic violence of Stravinsky to meditative loveliness and the sleek modernism of Ravel.