BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 6: Messiaen and Saint-Saens

To mark the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen's birth, Charles Hazlewood introduces a concert in which organist Olivier Latry performs Messiaen's solo work L'Ascension and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under conductor Myung-Whun Chung, perform the monumental Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. The concert concludes with Camille Saint-Saens's exuberant Organ Symphony. (R)

Broadcast on:

BBC Four, 12:30am Tuesday 22nd July 2008

First broadcast:

Monday 21st July 2008

Duration:

130 minutes

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Categories:

• Music,
• Classical