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Olivier Messiaen

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Olivier Messiaen on 20 August 2024. Olivier Messiaen has been played over 90 times on NTS, first on 8 March 2013. Olivier Messiaen's music has been featured on 78 episodes.

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen's music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greece and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen's own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", drawing on his…

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Oraison
Olivier Messiaen
Sub Rosa2006
Oraison
Olivier MessiaenSub Rosa2006
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Oraison
Olivier Messiaen
Mojo Magazine2020
Oraison
Olivier MessiaenMojo Magazine2020
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Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus
Olivier Messiaen, Michel Béroff
EMI, La Voix De Son Maître1970
Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus
Olivier Messiaen, Michel BéroffEMI, La Voix De Son Maître1970
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O Sacrum Convivium!
Olivier Messiaen
Arion1984
O Sacrum Convivium!
Olivier MessiaenArion1984
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Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
Messiaen, Olivier Messiaen, Jean Pasquier, Etienne Pasquier, André Vacellier
Musidisc0
Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
Messiaen, Olivier Messiaen, Jean Pasquier, Etienne Pasquier, André VacellierMusidisc0
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Préludes
Messiaen, Håkon Austbø
Naxos1999
Préludes
Messiaen, Håkon AustbøNaxos1999
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Le Merle Noir
Olivier Messiaen
Hungaroton1976
Le Merle Noir
Olivier MessiaenHungaroton1976
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Louange à L’Éternité de Jésus
Olivier Messiaen, Lucy Railton
Modern Love2020
Louange à L’Éternité de Jésus
Olivier Messiaen, Lucy RailtonModern Love2020
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Oiseaux Exotiques
Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann
Supraphon1971
Oiseaux Exotiques
Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav NeumannSupraphon1971
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Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus : I Regard Du Père
Messiaen, Aimard
Teldec Classics2000
Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus : I Regard Du Père
Messiaen, AimardTeldec Classics2000
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