Loriod, the vessel for Olivier Messiaen’s piano works, had a rich musical life beyond him, which is captured in a new set of recordings. By Joshua Barone Alec Baldwin chooses Tchaikovsky. Darryl ...

The life and work of the French composer Olivier Messiaen continue to fascinate. A mystic Catholic who sought inspiration from birdsong, vast empty canyons, stained-glass windows and his own ...

Berkeley photographer Deborah O’Grady has a picture in her studio of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, a Catholic mystic who transcribed bird songs and associated musical sounds with visual colors ...

On Sunday, November 16 (11 AM), the Maggio della Musica Association presents at Villa Pignatelli, neoclassical veranda, for ...

On a bitterly cold night in January 1941, French composer Olivier Messiaen debuted a new work. It was an unusual premiere. Messiaen’s audience was an assembly of war prisoners and their guards. The ...

The dot dot dot that Olivier Messiaen placed at the end of the title for his monument to Utah’s national parks, “Des Canyons aux Étoiles …” (From the Canyons to the Stars …), clearly implies something ...

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 ...

Messiaen: Eclairs sur l’Au-DelaOrchestra of the Bastille Opera, Chung, conductor (DG). This pair of releases, recorded by Chung prior to his abrupt dismissal last fall as music director of the ...

The past and present are not distinct worlds - they bleed constantly into one another - but it can sometimes take a chance confluence of the two to remind us of that fact. One such meeting is due next ...

The great French composer Olivier Messiaen is like Wagner; you either love him or hate him. For pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, artistic director of the centenary survey of Messiaen's music that's ...