Olivier Messiaen's Chronochromie

from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics · host BBC Radio 3

Composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral piece Chronochromie by his former teacher, Olivier Messiaen; while Paul Griffiths describes the significance of this work in the European avant-garde scene of the 1960s.

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