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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur (‘The Nativity of the Lord’) in the summer of 1935 while on an extended sojourn to the French Alps. The piece is a series of religious frescos ...

If you check out every musician that Naked City ever thanked, covered or paid tribute to, you'll discover Ives, Messiaen, Debussy, Morricone, Mancini, John Barry, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus ...