The first is the presence of Yuja Wang as solo pianist. Although Olivier Messiaen described his Turangalîla-Symphonie as “almost a concerto for piano and orchestra”, the piano part is often ...

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by conductor Ludovic Morlot, pianist Steven Osborne and horn player Martin Owen for Messiaen's shimmering 'Des canyons aux étoiles...' Show more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Olivier Messiaen's work ‘Quartet to the End of Time’ was written and premiered in a concentration camp during World War II.