Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Messiaen Centenary Series

A series of concerts given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall marking 2008's centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Messiaen Centenary Series - Episode 1

Louise Fryer introduces a concert given at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, with organist Wayne Marshall performing Messiaen's Les corps glorieux.

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Messiaen Centenary Series - Episode 2

Louise Fryer introduces soprano Gweneth-Ann Jeffers and pianist Simon Lepper in Messiaen's Poemes pour Mi and Debussy's Cinq poemes de Baudelaire.

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Messiaen Centenary Series - Episode 3

Louise Fryer introduces members of the Fibonacci Sequence in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as part of the 2008 centenary celebrations.

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Messiaen Centenary Series - Episode 4

Louise Fryer presents pianists Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe in Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen, the composer's first great religious piano cycle, from 1942.

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