There can be little doubt that Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is the most profoundly theological composer of the 20th century. Virtually all his pieces bear some form of explicit Christian intent or ...

The composer Olivier Messiaen famously introduced blackbirds and nightingales into his music. It is both baffling and bewitching ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, a vast, 10-movement work for an orchestra so large that there almost wasn’t room for the augmented, percussion-laden forces even in the ...

At long last, Saint Francis of Assisi arrived Friday night in the city that bears his name, clothed in the resplendent glory of Olivier Messiaen's music and preaching his message of sanctified ...

Yvonne Loriod's name will always be connected with that of her husband Olivier Messiaen, whose piano works she championed faithfully for six decades. Indeed, one of her best-known students ...

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison on Dante's Inferno, Michael Symmons Roberts on French composer Olivier Messiaen, and Daniel Swift on Shakespeare's first theatre Jamaica's former ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Daniel Bernardes: piano; Antonio Augusto Aguiar: bass; Mario Costa: drums; Jeff Davis, Pedro Gois: vibraphone, percussion; Miquel Bernat: marimba, percussion; João ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

It was an unusual event, and not only because of the venue. Written by French composer Olivier Messiaen, the quartet was scored for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, an unconventional combination ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées : I. 'C’est l’extase' by mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená & pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The recording can be found on their new album ...

It performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics and has recorded pieces by famed composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez ...