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In autumn, the soprano Gweneth Ann Rand and pianist Simon Lepperperformed Messiaen’s mammoth song cycle Harawi in the Wigmore Hall, with a small, spread-out audience physically present in front of them. This week they returned with more Messiaen, his Poèmes pour Mi. The nine movements of this 1936 song cycle – named for Messiaen’s wife Claire Delbos, whose nickname was Mi and who is personified in the central song, The Bride – were framed by two works of five songs each: Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Barber’s Despite and Still. Messiaen would have loved the symmetry.

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