NSO Review: ‘Turangalila’s’ majestic sweep soars above the flaws
One must hope that the torrential downpours were to blame for the hundreds of empty seats at the National Symphony Orchestra’s opening-night performance of Olivier Messiaen’s sprawling, sybaritic masterpiece of 1948, the "Turangalila-Symphonie." This massive paean to spiritual and physical love, nature and exoticism is complicated and costly to mount (the NSO had performed it ...