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 ...

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 ...

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 ...