Dawn French came into the studio – so we decided to find out what she thought of some bananas music by Messiaen
10 November 2015, 19:03 | Updated: 10 November 2015, 22:22
The brilliant comedian was here to talk to us about her new book, but we wanted to talk mostly about 20th century French composers…
Dawn French is a comedy legend, so when we came into Classic FM, we just had to get her thoughts on some of the greatest pieces ever written – from Rachmaninov to Bach.
So: Messiaen
We whipped out a bit of Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus – a suite of 20 pieces for solo piano inspired by the childhood of Jesus. Here's what Dawn made of it.
Dawn French listens to some MessiaenDawn French came in to the studio – so we decided to try out some Messiaen on her.
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First up – Rachmaninov
"Bobby Crush"… erm. No.
Dawn French listens to RachmaninovDawn French came in to talk about her new book – but we wanted to chat about Rachmaninov instead.
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Wait, I think she's joking.
We'll shut up now.
Some Arvo Pärt
We played Dawn part of Pärt's (we thank you) Tabula Rasa, because we didn't think the Messiaen was quite challenging enough…
The comedian came in – and we played her some contemporary musicoDawn French encounters some Arvo Pärt for the first time…
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Finally – some stonking Bach
We picked a bit of the Saint Matthew Passion and here's what she thought…
Dawn French listens to the Sant Matthew PassionDawn French came in and we made her listen to some Bach…
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Dawn French's new book 'According to Yes' is out now – and Dawn will be on Charlotte Green's Culture Club later this month.
