Afternoon on 3 - Towards Messiaen: Hearing Pictures - Episode 2

Presented by Penny Gore. Afternoon on 3 continues its occasional series celebrating 100 years since the birth of Messiaen, which focuses on his music in the context of significant themes in French music history and this week examines one of France's most important contributions to Western classical music - Impressionism. Messiaen relished the notion of painting pictures in music and, in particular, had a fasincation for portraying bird song and nature, continuing a tradition that goes back to Renaissance times and the French chansons. Caplet: Inscriptions champetres Poulenc: Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue BBC Singers James Morgan (conductor) Poulenc: Sinfonietta Ulster Orchestra Howard Shelley (conductor) Faure, orch. Rabaud: Dolly Suite Ulster Orchestra Howard Shelley (conductor) Schmitt: Par le tempete, Op 40 No 2 BBC Singers James Morgan (conductor) Messiaen: Visions de l'amen for two pianos GrauSchumacher Piano Duo Schmitt: A Contre-Voix Six choruses for mixed voices, Op 104 BBC Singers James Morgan (conductor) Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (arr. for string orchestra) Ulster Orchestra Tuomas Ollila (conductor).