PRINTEMPS DES ARTS DE MONTE-CARLO - TURANGALÎLA-SYMPHONIE
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Sat. 4th April 2026 7:30pm
⏰: Saturday 4 April 2026 at 7:30 pm
📍: Salle des Princes - Grimaldi Forum Monaco
On-site parking, night rate (from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m.) €0.20 per 15 minutes
Vincent David (1974-)
Mécanique céleste, for saxophone and orchestra (*) 15 min.
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Turangalîla-Symphony (°) 80 min.
Vincent David, saxophone
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano
Nathalie Forget, ondes Martenot
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Bruno Mantovani (*) and Kazuki Yamada (°), conductors
Without intermission
The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra tackles a gigantic work from the symphonic repertoire: the Turangalîla-Symphony, a vast hymn to joy and love composed by Olivier Messiaen for more than a hundred musicians, somewhere between a ballet for orchestra and a piano concerto, including the supernatural sounds of the ondes Martenot! As a prelude, La Mécanique céleste by (and featuring) composer-saxophonist Vincent David will launch the orchestra into weightlessness.
The concert will be preceded by a lecture at 6 p.m.: ‘The Orchestral Language of Olivier Messiaen’ by musicologist Yves Balmer. Reservations required: printempsdesarts.mc