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LECTURE AT KYOTO – KONFERENZ VON KYOTO
(TEXTE ANGLAIS ET ALLEMAND) LEDUC AL 30473.
German translation by Almut Rößler. English translation by Timothy Tikker.

14th festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije 2011 The 14th edition of the Messiaen Festival. The Music of Colours From July 23rd to 31st 2011, the festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije explored the relation between sounds and colours. It was a trait of Messiaen genre. A kaleidoscope of Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, Chopin, Stroppa’s music and others will shine through 13 concerts. Tristan Murail was the special guest for this 14th edition. www.festival-messiaen.com

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Brian Jordan.
Brian ran his famous music shop in Cambridge UK for many years and was
a key supplier of all of Messiaen's music and reference books. He
was always to be found at seminars and Messiaen conferences where
his boundless knowledge of Messiaen's printed matter was so much valued.
He will be greatly missed. R.I.P

The University of Alabama Third Annual 2012 Organ Scholarship Competition application and recorded round deadline is November 14, 2011. There are no age restrictions. The required works for the recorded round are: 1) J. S. Bach: A major Bach work (all movements of a multi-movement work); and 2) A work in the Romantic idiom by a composer born between 1800-1904. This may be a single movement only, and it may be a movement from a multi-movement work.
The final round held on Thursday, January 26, 2012 must include the two works listed above plus a contemporary work by a composer born no earlier than 1905. Total playing time of the three pieces shall not exceed thirty minutes.
The winner of the competition will be a featured artist on Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Ninth Annual University of Alabama Church Music Conference. Dr. Joby Bell, Assistant Professor of Music, Appalachian State University, will be an adjudicator as well as the featured artist for the Church Music Conference.

Download the application form and learn further details by visiting the University of Alabama Organ Department website.

2012 - Cavaillé-Coll - Daniel Roth - Saint Sulpice
150 anniveray of the organ of Saint Sulpice
11 - 15 April 2012 Organ Tour Paris and Organ Class Daniel Roth
29 April "Birthday in Saint Sulpice"
11.30h Audition by Kurt Lueders
16.00h Concert by Jean-Pierre Leguay, Yves Castagnet, Sophie-Véronique
Cauchefer- Choplin, Daniel Roth

Tour de France --- Summer - South of France - Cavaillé-Coll
one week the most beautiful organs of Cavaillé-Coll in the south of France
4 - 14 july 2012
see website

Eugeniusz Knapik performs Vingt Regards sur l\Enfant Jésus. Dux records. Release March 2012

Renée Fleming performs "Poèmes pour Mi". Decca (UMO) ASIN: B006TB2TUI. Release February 2012.

Presented here is a very special audiophile recording, originally recorded around 1959, of his famous composition "Poèmes pour Mi" - an early song cycle written in 1936, sung here by soprano Lise Arseguest with the composer at the piano. Newly remastered. Essential Media Group ASIN: B0050DOK08.

Joanna MacGregor Piano Masterclass at The Royal Academy of Music, London Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jesus (MMF 2-026) Messiaen MMF 2-026 1 disc(s) 2 hours 23 minutes 2009 Available from The Masterclass Media Foundation

"Cosmos Consciousness" Release date: 11.5.2011. Prelude. L'Ascension (expt); Les Corps Glorieux (expt); Le banquet Celeste; Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle; Livre d'Orgue (expt); Meditations sur le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite (expt); Offrande au Saint Sacrement; La Nativite du Seigneur (expt) Artist: Jonathan Dimmock / Cavaille-Coll-Orgel Notre Dame d'Auteuil, Paris Label: Gothic

Two new releases from the excellent Prestare label headed by Jolanda Zwoferink. Henco de Berg presents an all French recital of Vierne, Dupré and Messiaen (Extracts from La Nativite and Livre du Saint sacrement) concluding with seven improvisations on Veni Creator Spititus while Jolanda herself continues her journey though Messiaen's organ works withDiptyque, Offrande au Saint Sacrement, Monodie, Apparition de l'église eternelle and Messe de la Pentecote. Both artists perform on the grand organ of St Martin, Dudelange, Luxembourg which although lacking in some fine kaleidoscopic colouristic detail of Cavaillé-Coll instruments is more than worthy of all these works. These are impeccably recorded accounts as one has come to expect now from Prestare with attractive and informative booklets and notes. Highly recommended.

Joanna MacGregor, Charlotte Riedijk, Madeleine Mitchell, Christopher Van Kampen, David Campbell
Perform: Harawi - Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus - Quartet for the End of Time
Label: SoundCircus , DDD

In January 2010, Naxos Issues Digital Release of Paul Jacobs’s Recording of
Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement on iTunes

Jocy deOliveira, Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus. Label: Naxos Catalogue No: 9.70115-16 Barcode: 730099711517 Available for streaming and download only.

See and read full transcript (in French)of the anniversary Mass held in Avignon on 10th December 2008 with the homely read by P. JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS. The mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Avignon, Mgr Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, in the church St Didier, where Messiaen was baptised, 15 days after his birth, on Christmas 1908. During the whole evening, Olivier Latry was at the organ. After the mass, two poems of Messiaen’s mother, Cécile Sauvage, were read, with improvisations at the organ. And finally, “La Nativité du Seigneur”, concluded this memorable celebration.

In the French Alps, in the heart of the Dauphiné, rises the Matheysin. Plateau Situated between Grenoble and Gap at an altitude of 900M this region is composed of lakes and mountains.  Many birds familiar to Olivier Messiaen populate the landscape with its quietude.  Messiaen bought his first house here in 1936.  This modest residence at the edge of the lake Laffrey was Messiaen summer refuge and an important composing environment.  Thus Messiaen wanted to protect this setting that inspired so many compositions.  The surrounding paths and byways were trodden by the composer while notating the songs of blackbirds, larks, warblers and so on.
This is the unexplored dimension of Olivier Messiaen, his favourite places that the festival "Messiaen in Matheysine" wishes to discover for enthusiasts of his music. See all details

Fantaisie (1933) pour violon et piano
(from Durand press release)

Composed in Paris in 1933 and hitherto unpublished, this work is dedicated to the violinist Claire Delbos.

Messiaen's output for the violin is very slight, limited as it is to two extremely well-known pieces: the Théme et variations of 1932 and the 'Louange a l'immortalité de Jésus' from the Quatour pour la fin du temps. So violinists will be especially glad to discover his Fantasie, a work for violin and piano.
It is dedicated to 'Mi', as the composer affectionately referred to Claire Delbos his first wife, whom he had already dedicated a cycle of melodies with piano or orchestral accompaniment called Poemes pour Mi.
The Fantasie is a continuous composition of 161 bars with three distinct themes, though the different sections also comply with the standard structure of exposition, development and recapitulation.

The first theme, stated by the piano alone, has considerable rhythmic variety and anticipates the 'gigantic' music of the Danse de la fureur of the Quatour. The second theme is based on a triplet motif followed by four repeated notes and a trill.
The third theme is a melody (marked molto appassionata) sustained by a variegated piano accompaniment.
Fantasie for violin and piano has a duration of 15 minutes.

American violinist and film maker Paul Festa premiered Fantaisie in the USA.
Read his insightful perspective and analyses of the piece here.

Read more here.

Read more here.

Apparition of the Eternal Church ~ A film by Paul Festa. Paul Festa’s award-winning and critically acclaimed first film Apparition of the Eternal Church captures a spectacular confrontation between thirty-one mostly nonreligious artists and the music of French Catholic composer Olivier Messiaen. Faced with the challenge of putting Messiaen’s apocalyptic music into words, listeners including literary critic Harold Bloom, filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell, actor and Pulitzer-nominated playwright Eisa Davis, Tony-nominated drag star Justin Bond (“Kiki & Herb”), Scissor Sisters singer Ana Matronic and the late harpsichord virtuoso Albert Fuller tell a story that ranges from scenes of torture and hellfire to sex and spiritual ecstasy. OH MY GOD: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever is based on Paul Festa's award-winning and critically acclaimed film Apparition of the Eternal Church. The book and movie capture the explosive responses of 31 mostly nonreligious artists to the apocalyptic music of the Christian visionary Olivier Messiaen.

MESSIAEN MAGNIFIED - Banquet pour O by C. Scott Tresham

Banquet pour O is one of the most unique tributes to the work of pre-eminent French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Banquet pour O is based on Messiaen’s own recording of Le Banquet céleste for organ, his first published composition. “I’ve carefully catalogued every duration of every note in that recording” says Tresham, “it’s not simply a case of saying all the quarter notes last this long, all the eighth notes are x number of seconds... many notes that look like they’re the same duration on the page are in fact completely different in Messiaen’s performance.” Each duration is then multiplied so that the entire performance (originally just over seven minutes long) will last 100 minutes. “I’m sure it will take [the audience] a while to adjust to this new level of slow, but once you do you enter a real contemplative state. There’s a whole universe to explore in each one of these sonorities. The experience can actually be euphoric.” Read more

The long awaited 1967 Supraphon recording of Oiseaux exotiques, Réveil des Oiseaux and La Bouscarle
with Yvonne Loriod, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Václav Neumann is released on CD
on the Denon Crest 1000 label COCO73019.

DVD RELEASE
Messiaen's La Nativite du Seigneur with Jennifer Bate
This recording of Jennifer Bate, one of the foremost international organists of our day, playing Oliver Messaien’s La Nativité du Seigneur was made in the magnificent setting of Norwich Cathedral, when a capacity audience gave her virtuoso performance a prolonged ovation.
Messiaen’s religious works for the organ have been compared with those of Beethoven in their greatness for the solo instrument. La Nativité du Seigneur is no exception: its virtuosity embraces a magnificent cycle of nine meditations on the Christmas message.
Bate’s recordings of Messaien’s complete organ works have won international acclaim and many prestigious awards.

Catalogue No.. RCO 09003 - Barcode: 5425008376875 - Hybrid SACD

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on Messiaen in its 2007–8 season. A major musical figure of the twentieth century, Messiaen (b. 1908, d. 1992) created an entirely unique musical œuvre in which such divergent elements as divinity (as it relates to Catholicism and other doctrines), ornithology and the synaesthetic perception of sound as colour are all interconnected with his innovative rhythmic and harmonic musical language and tonal organisation. As a thinker and teacher, Messiaen carried out groundbreaking work in music during the second half of the twentieth century, but his work as a composer has remained unsurpassed. During this special season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra programmed works not only by Messiaen himself, but also compositions by his musical predecessors, students and disciples. With this second release in the Horizon CD series dedicated to contemporary repertoire, RCO Live has captured this resounding homage to Olivier Messiaen in superb five-channel stereo. This recording features the following works: Dukas / van Keulen - La Plainte, au loin, du faune… ** Messiaen - Les offrandes oubliées** Dalbavie - La source d’un regard** Messiaen - Chronochromie** Zuidam - Adam* ** conductor: George Benjamin * conductor: Ingo Metzmacher

Momo Kodama performs Catalogue d'oiseaux SACD OVCT-00060 Triton released Jan 2010

NEOS are embarking on the release of the Complete Works for Solo Piano with Markus Bellheim. Volume 1 is Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus. NEOS 10907/08 EAN: 4260063109072 released: January 20, 2010 Catalogue d'oiseaux SACD 20 Jan 2010

Visions de l'Amen - Chants de terre et de ciel / Yvonne Loriod, piano - Olivier Messiaen, piano - Noelle Barker, soprano - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, piano. DDG Download.

Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus performed by Anna Guðný Guðmundsdóttir. Available direct from Anna.

Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France. Decca 478 1466

!!! DVD of Saint François d´Assise!!! From OpusArte. CAT NO: OA1007D FORMAT: All Formats REGIONS: All Regions PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9 LENGTH: TBC SOUND: 5.0 DTS SURROUND / PCM STEREO SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/NL RELEASED: 01/03/2009 NO OF DISCS: 3 Messiaen's breathtakingly intense opera on the life of St Francis of Assisi stars Rod Gilfry as the charismatic visionary, beguiled by the glory of creation, yet fearful of both its imperfections and its transience. Pierre Audi's thoroughly engaging production for The Netherlands Opera brings out the naive imagery, the grandeur, and above all the vast tenderness of the resplendent score, revealed as a grandiose ritual with the meaning and purpose of life as its central theme. But the real drama of the work takes place in the orchestra. Elevated to stupendous heights by the sublimely inspired Ingo Metzmacher, The Hague Philharmonic and the Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera combine forces with a brilliant cast to produce the finest possible musical pilgrimage. forces with a brilliant cast to produce the finest possible musical pilgrimage.  The Angel: Camilla Tilling Saint François: Rod Gilfry The Leper: Hubert Delamboye Frère Léon: Henk Neven Frère Massée: Tom Randle Frère Élie: Donald Kaasch Frère Bernard: Armand Arapian The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher Stage Director: Pierre Audi

Messiaen et autour de Messiaen, for Onde Martenot and Piano ReR OM1 (May 2009 Release) Works by Olivier Messiaen, Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (1941), Feuillets inédits Quatrepièces restituées et éditées par Yvonne Loriod- Messiaen. Vocalise-Étude (1935), Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus (1941). N’Guyen- Thien Dao, 2 - Bai Tap (1974) (for onde Martenot and prepared piano) Jacques Charpentier, Suite karnatique (1958) (for onde Martenot solo)and Tristan Murail, Tigres de Verre (1974). Nadia Ratsimandresy - onde Martenot Matteo Ramon Arevalos – piano and prepared piano

Claude-Samuel Levine new CD of a sequenced version of Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps with Claude-Samuel performing all the parts. Plus works for Ondes Martenot and Piano. More details here

DVD BRL9022 Label: Brilliant Classics
Organ works (2 DVD)
Willem Tanke (Marcussen Organ of the Saint Laurens Church, Rotterdam)

2008 was the centenary of Messiaen’s birth, and this 2 DVD set of a selection of his organ music is a superb introduction for those new to his music and an essential purchase for all organ aficionados. Messiaen wrote in many genres, chamber, orchestral, piano solo, and enriched greatly the organ repertoire of the 20th century. Although Debussy and Ravel influenced his earliest works, (orientalism and famously the songs of birds were life long influences and a source of fascination to him) Messiaen became a significant influence upon avant-garde composers such as Boulez and Stockhausen. You can sample Tanke’s approach to Messiaen, which is influenced by his study of Buddhist faith and philosophy, on YouTube (keywords: Tanke and Messiaen). The technology afforded by DVD allows the listener to view from several angles, including underneath the bench to see Messiaen’s ferociously mobile pedal parts at first feet, as it were. ( Brilliant Classics )

Tanke plays the Marcussen organ in St Laurens Church, Rotterdam
Tanke has recorded the complete organ works of Messiaen for Brilliant Classics on CD, recently reissued in time for Messiaen’s centenary
‘This new set by Willem Tanke is most certainly Messiaenic heaven to me, and has placed the music far closer to my heart than any of the previous sets. This recent release is as close to perfect as I think I will find’ The Organ
Tanke is a specialist in the organ works of Reger, JS Bach and Messiaen. He is also famous as an improviser and champion of contemporary Dutch music. He is a professor of theory and improvisation at Rotterdam Conservatoire

DVD 1 [53:08]
Livre d'orgue
1. Reprises par interversion 6:47
2. Piece en trio 2:40
3. Les Mains de l'abime 9:35
4. Chants d'oiseaux 9:33
5. Piece en trio 8:36
6. Les Yeux dans les roues 1:54
7. Soixante-quatre durees 12:03

DVD 2 [51:12]
1. Adoro te (from: Livre du Saint Sacrement) 4:59
2. Entree (from: Messe de la Pentecote) 4:07
3. Meditation 3 (from: Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte-Trinite) 4:09
4. Meditation 2 (from: Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte-Trinite) 14:06
5. La Resurrection du Christ (from: Livre du Saint Sacrement) 6:23
6. Le Verbe (second part, from: La Nativite du Seigneur) 8:49
7. Les deux murailles d'eau (from: Livre du Saint Sacrement) 8:39

Bonus Track: Willem Tanke counting out loud:
8. Piece en trio, Soixante-quatre durees and Entree 18:56

Recorded: 14,15/05/2007
16:9, PCM Stereo, NTSC, Region All

Fête des belles eaux, Ensemble d'Ondes de Montréal. FEUILLETS INÉDITS, Louise Bessette (piano)
ATMA ACD22621 Label:Atma DDD

First recording (European Premiere) of Turangalila Symphonie recorded at Aix-en-Provence Festival on 25th July 1950. Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. Yvinne Loriod piano, Ginette Martenot Ondes Martenot, Roger Dèsormiére conductor. Part of a 6CD box set from INA Mémoire vive Aix-en-Provence (Festivals 1954-1957) IMV078

7 CD box from Accord Les Premiers Enregistrements 1956-1962 Olivier Messiaen & Yvonne Loriod & Pierre Boulez & Maurice Le Roux Visions De L'Amen ~ Cantéyodjayâ ~ Catalogue D'Oiseaux ~ Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps ~ Sept Haïkaï ~ Turangalîla-Symphonie ~ Oiseaux Exotiques ~ Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jésus

9 CD SET of Messiaen's orchestral and chamber music. Includes: Turangalîla-Symphonie, Eclairs sur l'Au-Delà..., Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Des Canyons aux étoiles...,La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Les Offrandes Oubliees, Le Tombeau Resplendissant, L'Ascension, Chronochromie, Sept Haikai, La Ville D`en Haut, Et Exspecto, Concert A Quatre, Theme Et Variation, Poemes Pour Mi, O Sacrum Convivium. DGG UCCG4313

17 CD Box set ORGAN WORKS - PIANO WORKS - SONGS complete Willem Tanke, organ, St. Bavo's Cathedral, Haarlem Peter Hill, piano Ingrid Kappelle soprano Håkon Austbø piano. Brilliant Classics 8949 EAN Code: 5029365894920.

Signum Classics SIGCD126 Matthew Schellhorn (piano) Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra TRACK LISTING 1. Fantaisie [8.59] Quatuor pour la fin du Temps 2. Liturgie de cristal [2.37] 3. Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps [5.04] 4. Abîme des oiseaux [8.21] 5. Intermède [1.48] 6. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus [7.26] 7. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes [6.08] 8. Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange ui annonce la fin du Temps [7.21] 9. Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus [6.56] 10. Le Merle noir [6.24] 11. Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes [3.07] 12. Morceau de lecture à vue World Première Recording

NEW SERIES OF DOWNLOADABLE TALKS BY P. JEAN-RODOLPHE KARS This transmission series, was recorded in 1997 for Radio Espérance.  Although these talks are directed to listeners of a Catholic culture they also provide a valuable musicological resource from a man who has experienced Messiaen and his music at first hand. The files are in MP3 format and available from Maison de l’Emmanuel Full pdf list of the files here

REGARD DE L'ETOILE. Latvian pianist Dzintra Erliha plays music by fellow Latvian Lucija Garuta and selections from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus. www.dzintraerliha.com

EMI CLASSICS Olivier Messiaen 1908 / 1992 : The Anniversary Edition (14 CD set) featuring Martha Argerich, Serge Baudo, Michel Beroff, Yvonne Loriod, Andre Previn, Olivier Messiaen, Michelle Command, Antal Dorati etc. see Full CD track details

6 CD set to celebrate the centenary. Works include: La Transfiguration / Visions de l'Amen / Sept Haikai / Couleurs de la Cite Celeste / Un vitrail et des oiseaux / Oiseaux exotiques / Des Canyons aux etoiles...

3 CD set to celebrate the centenary. Portrait: 35 Pages Essentielles

FROM DECCA MESSIAEN EDITION II Piano & Organ Music CD 1 [69:08] [1]Oiseaux exotiques (1955-56)13:35 Catalogue d’oiseaux(1956-58) Book 1 [2] Le Chocard des Alpes 8:49 [3] Le Loriot 7:27 [4] Le Merle Bleue 12:31 Book 2 [5] Le Traquet Stapazin 13:12 Book 3 [6] La Chouette Hulotte6:26 [7] L’Alouette Lulu 6:48 CD 2 [81:45] Book 4 [1] La Rousserolle Effarvatte 27:09 Book 5 [2] L’Alouette Calandrelle 4.27 [3] La Bouscarle 10:13 Book 6 [4] Le Merle de Roche 15:18 Book 7 [5] La Buse Variable 9:02 [6] Le Traquet Rieur 6:52 [7] Le Courlis Cendré 8:39 CD 3 [79:59] [1] Cantéyodjayâ (1949)12:27 Quatre Etudes de rythme (1949-50) [2] I Ile de feu I1:59 [3] III Neumes rythmiques 6:35 [4] IV Ile de feu 4:21 Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus(1944) [5] I Regard du Père 8:02 [6] II Regard de l’étoile 2:35 [7] III L’échange 1:50 [8] IV Regard de la Vierge 6:44 [9] V Regard du Fils sur le Fils 8:36 [10] VI Par Lui tout a été fait 9:12 [11] VII Regard de la Croix 4:28 [12] VIII Regard des hauteurs 2:01 [13] IX Regard du temps 2:28 [14] X Regard de l’Esprit de joie 8:23 CD 4 [73:58] [1] XI Première communion de la Vierge 7:38 [2] XII La parole toute-puissante 2:32 [3] XIII Noël 3:53 [4] XIV Regard des Anges 4:41 [5] XV Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus 12:24 [6] XVI Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages 3:41 [7] XVII Regard du silence 5:39 [8] XVIII Regard de l’Onction terrible 8:33 [9] XIX Je dors, mais mon coeur veille 11:48 [10] XX Regard de l’Eglise d’amour 13:03 CD 5 [63:04] [1] O sacrum convivium! (1937) 3:55 La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) [2] I La Vierge et l’Enfant 5:55 [3] II Les Bergers 6:41 [4] III Desseins éternels 6:43 [5] IV Le Verbe 10:29 [6] V Les Enfants de Dieu 4:10 [7] VI Les Anges 3:26 [8] VII Jésus accepte la souffrance 4:17 [9] VIII Les Mages 9:11 [10] IX Dieu parmi nous 8:36 CD 6 [74:47] L’Ascension(1933-34) [1] I Majesté du Christ 6:37 [2] II Alléluias 7:25 [3] III Transports de joie 4:44 [4] IV Prière du Christ 7:13 [5] Diptyque (1930)11:06 [6] Apparition de l’Eglise éternelle (1932) 9:48 Messe de la Pentecôte (1949-50) [7] I Entrée (Les langues de feu) 2:24 [8] II Offertoire (Les choses visibles et invisibles) 11:22 [9] III Consécration (Le don de Sagesse) 3:54 [10] IV Communion (Les oiseaux et les sources) 5:59 [11] V Sortie (Le vent de l’Esprit) 3:22 CD 7 [62:56] [1] Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace (1960) 9:50 [2] Le Banquet céleste (1928, rev.1960) 6:16 Les Corps glorieux: Sept visions brèves de la Vie des Ressuscités (1939) [3] I Subtilité des Corps glorieux 6:31 [4] II Les Eaux des la Grâce 2:49 [5] III L’Ange aux parfums 7:44 [6] IV Combat de la Mort et de la Vie 13:24 [7] V Force et Agilité des Corps glorieux 3:20 [8] VI Joie et Clarté des Corps glorieux 5:32 [9] VII Le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité 7:03 Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano (CD 1 track [1]) Robert Sherlaw Johnson - piano (CD 1 tracks [2]-[[7]; CD 2; CD 3 tracks [1]-[4]) John Ogdon - piano (CD 3 tracks [5]-[14]; CD 4) Simon Preston - organ (CD 5 tracks [2]-[10]) Thomas Trotter - organ (CD 6; CD 7) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (CD 1 track [1]) Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge (CD 5 track [1]) Riccardo Chailly (CD 1 track [1]) Decca 7cds 4780353

The Messiaen Edition - 100th Anniversary Set DECCA Orchestral & Chamber Works, Song Cycle CD1 Turangalîla-symphonie (1946-48) (76:36) 1. I Introduction 2. II Chant d’amour 1 3. III Turangalîla 1 4. IV Chant d’amour 2 5. V Joie du sang des étoiles 6. VI Jardin du sommeil d’amour 7. XII Turangalîla 2 8. VIII Développement de l’amour 9. IX Turangalîla 3 10. X Final CD2 (76:00) L’Ascension – Quatre méditations symphoniques pour orchestre (1932-33) (19:40) 1. I Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père (Très lent et majestueux. 2. II Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel (Bien modéré, clair. 3. III Alléluia sur la trompette, alléluia sur la cymbale (Vif et joyeux. 4. IV Prière du Christ montant vers son Père (Extrêmement lent, ému et solennel. Cinq rechants (1948) 5. I Modéré - Presque vif 6. II Bien modéré 7. III Lent, caressant 8. IV Très vif 9. V Vif Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964) 10. I Des profondeurs de l’abime. Je crie vers toi, Seigneur: Seigneur, écoute ma voix! (Psaume 130) 11. II Le Christ, resussité des morts, ne meurt plus; La mort n’a plus sur lui d’empire (Epitre aux Romains) 12. III L’heure vient ou les morts entendront la voix du Fils de Dieu (Jean) 13. IV Ils ressusiteront, glorieux, avec un nom nouveau dans le concert joyeux des étoiles et les acclamations des fils du ciel (Corinthiens, Apocalypse, Job) 14. V Et j’entendis la voix d’une foule immense (Apocalypse) La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1965-69) Premier Septénaire 15. I Récit évangelique 16. II Configuratum corpori claritatis suae 17. III Christus Jesus, splendor Patris CD3 (75:28) 1. IV Récit évangelique 2. V Quam dilecta tabernacula tua 3. VI Candor est lucis aeterna 4. VII Choral de la sainte montagne Deuxième Septénaire 5. VIII Récit évangelique 6. IX Perfecte conscius illius perfectae generationis 7. X Adoptionem filiorum perfectam 8. XI Récit évangélique 9. XII Terribilis est locus iste 10. XIII Tota trinitas apparuit 11. XIV Choral de la lumière de gloire CD4 (73:03) Poèmes pour Mi (1936, orch.1937) Livre I 1. Action de graces 2. Paysage 3. La maison 4. Epouvante Livre II 5. L’Epouse 6. Ta voix 7. Les deux guerriers 8. Le Collier 9. Prière exaucée Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (1940-41) 10. I Liturgie de cristal 11. II Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 12. III Abime des oiseaux 13. IV Intermède 14. V Louange à l’Eternité de Jésus 15. VI Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes 16. VII Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 17. VIII Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus CD5 (77:00) Chants de Terre et de ciel (1938) 1. I Bail avec Mi 2. II Antienne du silence 3. III Danse du bébé-Pilule 4. IV Arc-en-ciel d’innocence 5. V Minuit pile et face 6. VI Résurrection Harawi (1945) (51:13) 7. I La ville qui dormait, toi 8. II Bonjour toi, colombe verte 9. III Montagnes 10. IV Doundou Tchil 11.V L’amour de Piroutcha 12. VI Repétition planétaire 13. VII Adieu 14. VIII Syllabes 15. IX L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil 16. X Amour oiseau d’étoile 17. XI Katchkatchi les étoiles 18. XII Dans le noir CD6 (80:46) Poèmes pour Mi (1936) Livre I 1. Action de graces 2. Paysage 3. La maison 4. Epouvante Livre II 5. L’Epouse 6. Ta voix 7. Les deux guerriers 8. Le collier 9. Prière exaucée 10. Rondeau (1943) Visions de l’Amen (1943) 11. I Amen de la Création 12. II Amen des étoiles, de la planète à l’anneau 13. III Amen de l’Agonie de Jésus 14. IV Amen du désir 15. V Amen des Anges, des Saints, du chant des oiseaux 16. VI Amen du Jugement 17. VII Amen de la Consommation Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano Yvonne Loriod - piano Olli Mustonen - piano Robert Sherlaw Johnson - piano Paul Crossley - piano John Ogdon - piano Brenda Lucas - piano Takashi Harada ondes martenot Joshua Bell - violin Janos Starker - cello Steven Isserlis - cello Michael Collins - clarinet Felicity Palmer - soprano Noelle Barker - soprano Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C. BBC Symphony Orchestra John Alldis Choir Westminster Symphonic Choir Riccardo Chailly Leopold Stokowski Bernard Haitink Antal Dorati Pierre Boulez Decca 6cds 4780352

Complete Edition. DG 32cds label: Deutsche Grammophon Apparition de l'Eglise éternelle L’Ascension (4 méditations symphoniques) L’Ascension (version pour orgue) Le Banquet céleste Cantéyodjayâ Catalogue d'oiseaux Chant dans le style de Mozart Chants de Terre et de Ciel Chants des déportés Chronochromie Cinq Rechants Concert à quatre Les Corps glorieux Couleurs de la Cité Céleste Des canyons aux étoiles Diptyque Eclairs sur l'Au-Delà Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Fantaisie burlesque Fantaisie pour violon et piano La Fauvette des Jardins Fête des belles eaux Harawi Huit Préludes Hymne Livre d'orgue Le Livre du Saint Sacrement Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité Le Merle noir Messe de la Pentecôte Monodie La mort du Nombre La Nativité du Seigneur O sacrum convivium, motet pour le Saint-Sacrement Offrande au Saint-Sacrement Les Offrandes oubliées Oiseaux exotiques Petites Esquisses d'oiseaux Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes Pièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas Poèmes pour Mi (soprano et piano) Poèmes pour Mi (soprano et orchestre) Prélude pour orgue Prélude pour piano Quatre Etudes de rythme Quatre inédits pour piano et ondes Martenot Quatuor pour la fin du Temps Réveil des oiseaux Rondeau Saint François d'Assise Sept Haïkaï Thème et variations Le Tombeau resplendissant La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ Trois Mélodies Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine Turangalîla-Symphonie Un Sourire Un Vitrail et des oiseaux Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace La Ville d’en Haut Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus Visions de l'Amen Vocalise-Etude Pierre-Laurent Aimard . John Alldis Choir . Martha Argerich . Daniel Barenboïm . Noelle Barker . Pierre Boulez / The Cleveland Orchestra . Catherine Cantin . Riccardo Chailly / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra . Myung-Whun Chung / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France . Myung-Whun Chung / Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille . Catherine Cournot . José van Dam . Sir Andrew Davis / BBC Chorus and Orchestra . Guy Deplus . Georges Guest / Saint John’s College . Jay Gottlieb . Heinz Holliger . Daniel Hope . Joela Jones . Jean-Paul Kreder / Ensemble Le Madrigal . Gidon Kremer . Hervé Lamy . Christian Lardé . Olivier Latry . Jeanne Loriod . Sextuor d'ondes Jeanne Loriod . Sylvia McNair . Maîtrise de Radio-France . Nathalie Manfrino . Olivier Messiaen . Chris Merritt . Yvonne Loriod . Roger Muraro . Kent Nagano / Hallé Orchestra . Yumi Nara . Françoise Pollet . Karl Anton Rickenbacher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin . Quatuor Rosemonde . Mstislav Rostropovich . Robert Sherlaw Johnson . Albert Tétard . Jean-Yves Thibaudet . Dawn Upshaw . Marie Vermeulin . Luben Yordanoff… The Messiaen celebrations come to an overwhelming climax with this superb 32-CD set of his complete works. The only complete edition - Released on Deutsche Grammophon - Limited edition. 400-page booklet in English and French, including complete sung texts and libretto OVERVIEW: The solo piano works with Roger Muraro (7 CDs); the organ works with Olivier Latry (6 CDs); Orchestral and Choral works with Myung Whun Chung and Pierre Boulez, with Pierre-Laurent, Yvonne Loriod as soloists (ca. 10 CDs); the opera Saint Francois directed by Kent Nagano (4 CDs); Chamber Works with Daniel Barenboim,. Gidon Kremer and Martha Argerich, Daniel Hope (new recording); vocal works with Noelle Barker The whole is rounded off with a performance of the two-piano Visions de l'Amen by Yvonne Loriod and Messiaen himself (recorded in Paris in 1962) Specially recorded for this edition: Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine, Coulers de la Cité Céleste and the rare Hymne (1932) with Myung Whun Chung; the recently discoverd Fantaisie for violin and Piano with Daniel Hope. Don't miss: Fetes des belles for six Ondes Martenot on CD 27! DG 32cds 4801333

!!!LE DOMAINE MUSICAL!!! Accord have re-released much of the old Vega recordings made by Le Domaine Musical under Pierre Boulez of 20th century works by Messiaen, Berio, Stockhausen, Boulez. Henze, Pousseur, Nono and more. These recording were made between 1956 and 1967. The set also includes an exclusive interview between Pierre Boulez and Claude Samuel.

MESSIAEN EDITION Warner Classics 18 CD set that replaces and updates the original 17 CD set released by Erato in the 80s 2564-62162-2 (18CD) Artists include: Yvonne Loriod Soloist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard Soloist: Katia Labèque Soloist: Marielle Labèque Soloist: Marie-Claire Alain Soloist: Olivier Messiaen Ensemble: Ensemble Ars Nova Conductor: various Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique de l’O.R.T.F.

This 18-CD set offers a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000 by the Warner labels Erato and Teldec. The performers include the composer himself, his wife the pianist Yvonne Loriod, Pierre Boulez, Marie-Claire Alain and other champions of Messiaen’s work.
As a tantalising and unique bonus, a full CD is devoted to an extensive interview with Messiaen recorded in 1988 in which he speaks, in French, about bird-song, colour, travel, religious faith, opera and the avant-garde. The richly illustrated 149-page booklet includes a full English translation of the interview as well as the composer’s detailed commentary about most of the works included in the set – with booklet editor Fabian Watkinson supplying information about the remaining works.
Gramophone described the 80th Birthday Messiaen Edition released by Erato in 1988, on which the current edition is based, as “a treasure chest of great music and fine music-making.” see reviews

CD 1: Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (1985); Huit Préludes (1928-29);
Quatre études de rythme (1949-50)
Yvonne Loriod, piano
CD 2: La nativité du seigneur (1935) Le banquet céleste (1928);
Apparition de l’église éternelle (1932)
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
CD 3 : Poèmes pour Mi (1936); Chants de terre et de ciel (1938)
Maria Oràn, soprano · Yvonne Loriod, piano
CD 4 : Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940-41)
Huguette Fernandez, violin · Guy Deplus, clarinet
Jacques Nielz, cello · Marie-Madeleine Petit, piano
Cinq rechants pour 12 parties vocales réelles (1948)
Solistes des chœurs de l’ORTF/Marcel Couraud
CD 5 : Visions de l’Amen (1943)
Katia and Marièlle Labèque, pianos
Les offrandes oubliées (1930) Hymne au Saint-Sacrement (1932)
Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF/Marius Constant
CD 6 & 7 : Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus (1944)
Yvonne Loriod, piano
CD 8: Harawi, (Chants d’amour et de mort) (1945)
Rachel Yakar, soprano · Yvonne Loriod, piano
CD 9: Turangalîla-symphonie (1946–48) 1990 Revised Messiaen Edition
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; Dominique Kim, ondes Martenot
Berliner Philharmoniker/Kent Nagano
CD 10, 11 & 12: Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956–58); La fauvette des jardins (1970)
Yvonne Loriod, piano
Réveil des oiseaux (1953)
Yvonne Loriod, piano; Orchestre National de France/Kent Nagano
CD 13 : Couleurs de la cité céleste (1963); Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)
Yvonne Loriod, piano; Groupe Instrumental à Percussion de Strasbourg;
Orchestre du Domaine Musical/Pierre Boulez
L’Ascension (1932–33) Quatre méditations symphoniques pour orchestre
Orchestre philharmonique de l’ORTF/Marius Constant
CD 14 : Trois petites liturgies sur la présence divine (1943–44)
Yvonne Loriod, piano; Jeanne Loriod, onde Martenot
Maîtrise et Orchestre de Chambre de la RTF/ Marcel Couraud
Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (1969)
CD 15: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (1969) (cont’d.)
Olivier Messiaen, organ (Recorded on the Cavaillé-Coll organ in La Trinité Church, Paris)
CD 16 & 17: Des canyons aux étoiles ... (1971–74)
Yvonne Loriod, piano · Georges Barboteu, horn _ Alain Jacquet, xylorimba ·
François Dupin, glockenspel _ Ensemble Ars Nova/Marius Constant
Sept Haïkaï (1962)
Yvonne Loriod, piano _ Ensemble Ars Nova/Marius Constant
CD 18: Olivier Messiaen interviewed by Claude Samuel (in French), 1988

First available recording of TIMBRES-DURÉES realised in 1952
see Audio/Visual resources

HYMNE DES PASSEREAUX AU LEVER DU JOUR
The first recording of this work. Also includes Abîme des Oiseaux and transcription of Subtilité des Corps Glorieux.
Aurelian-Octav Popa (clarinet) Caliope CAL 9354

TURANGALILA SYMPHONIE. Kaori Kimura piano, Takashi Harada ondes martenot
Recorded in the Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University on 21 May 1985. First Australian performance. First commercial release.
Hiroyuki Iwaki conductor
Label: ABC Classics 12472 Australia Available from BuyWell.

JOYCE HATTO 1928 – 2006 It has emerged that this recording of Vingt Regards is in fact the recording made by Paul Kim and not Joyce Hatto.

The enterprising Explore label re-issued many old Decca and Headline releases from the 70s among which is Visions de l'Amen by John Ogden and Brenda Lucas EXP0013

FÉTES DES BELLES EAUX for 6 Ondes Martenots with Takashi Harada playing all parts. Also presented on this fine CD is FUEILLETS INEDITS for Ondes and piano.

MARCEL DUPRÉ DVD DVD of Dupré performing and speaking. Messiaen joined Dupré's organ class in October 1927 at the Paris Conservatoire continuing and maintaining the great French improvisor/composer tradition that had gone before him. www.marceldupre.com

Roger Muraro performing Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus on Accord DVD 476-719 0 As well as an astonishing performance of Vingt Regards recorded at l'Eglise de La Grave, Roger Murarao provides a fascinating insight to the lives of Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod and their influence on his musical career.

OLIVIER MESSIAEN ~ The Crystal Liturgy ~ A film by Olivier Mille Finally Olivier Mille's film is now commercially available!!! THE CRYSTAL LITURGY recreates the universe in which Messiaen evolved. Numerous archival clips, filmed between 1964 and 1987 - predominantly of Messiaen discussing his methods and creative processes, have been brought together to create a self-portrait, illustrated with a great number of excerpts from his oeuvre. Picture Format: 4:3 Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo Languages: French, English and German Running time: 88 mins EXTRAS: Includes excerpts from films about Olivier Messiaen and interviews with key figures such as Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Gilbert Amy, Alain Louvier, Pierre Boulez, Pére Jean Rodolphe Kars and many more. Juxtapositions DVD NTSC DVD9DS44 Distributed by Naxos.

Paul S. Kim's recording series on Messiaen's complete piano works is now finished. The final 4th volume (The Early Works) was released in 2005. The repertoire in this album includes the Eight Preludes, Les offrandes oubliees, Piece pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas, Fantasie burlesque, Rondeau, and Prelude (1964). This 4th volume was among those selected in the prestigious All Music Guide (AMG) Best of 2005 Classical Keyboard Music . Available on the Centaur label. See reviews page for further information on Paul Kim's Messiaen releases.

!!!NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS!!! See Bibliography

Forthcoming Concerts and Events

My heartfelt and sincere thanks go to Dennis Davis for his continued and tireless contribution to the 'forthcoming concerts and events' section.

Messiaen 2008
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2011

10 June 2011 7pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle perform Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Snape, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK. Aldeburgh Festival

12 June 2011 4.30pm Marie-Luise Neunecker, horn performs Appel Interstellaire. Britten Theatre Snape Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK. Aldeburgh Festival

13 June 2011 1.00pm Sarah Jenks, soprano, Amber Rainey, piano perform Chants de terre et de ciel. St. Peter's Church, Notting Hill, London, UK.

17 June 2011 2pm Britten-Pears Orchestra wind section/Jamie Man, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano perform Oiseaux exotiques. Snape, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK. Aldeburgh Festival

17 June 2011 10pm The London Sinfonietta perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps at St Magnus Festival, St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney UK.

18 June 2011 8.30pm Solistes de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Myung-Whun Chung, piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps Basilique Saint Denis, Paris Festival de Saint Denis 2011, France.

1 July 2011 London Sinfonietta perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps Kings Place, London, UK.

2 July 2011 (7pm) and 3 July (2.30pm), Melbourne Youth Orchestra/Fabian Russell Peter de Jager, piano, Jacob Abela, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. South Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia.

2 July 2011 20.00 Stephan Heuberger performs Livre du Daint Sacrement. Universitatskirche St. ludwig, Munich, Germany.

4 July 201120.00 Stephan Heuberger performs Messe de la Pentecote, Livre d'Orgue. Universitatskirche St. ludwig, Munich, Germany.

7 July 2011 20.00 Stephan Heuberger performs Mystere de la Sainte Trinité. Universitatskirche St. ludwig, Munich, Germany.

June - July 2011 MADRID OPERA 2010-2011 season presents St François d'Assise Director musical Sylvain Cambreling

Instalación Emilia e Ilya Kabakov Disposición escénica Giuseppe Frigeni Figurinista Robby Duiveman Iluminador Jean Kalman Director del coro Andrés Máspero El ángel Camilla Tilling Saint François Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester El leproso Michael König Frère Léon Wiard Withold Frère Massée Tom Randle Frère Éllie Gerhard Siegel Frère Bernard Victor von Halem Frère Sylvestre Vladimir Kapshuk Coro Titular del Teatro Real y Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden - Freiburg Madrid Caja Mágica Julio 6, 8, 10, 11, 13 18.00 horas. Dos intermedios, con posibilidad de cenar durante el segundo Salida a la venta 26 de abril Enfoques 22 de junio. 19.30 horas www.teatro-real.es

July 1, 5, 10 2011 at 4pm THE MUNCHNER OPERNFESTSPIELE 2011 presents St François d'Assise Musical Director Kent Nagano

Szenische Konzeption und Gestaltung, Bühne und Kostüme Hermann Nitsch L'Ange Christine Schäfer Saint François Paul Gay Le Lépreux John Daszak Frère Léon Nikolay Borchev Frère Massée Kenneth Roberson Frère Élie Ulrich Reß Frère Bernard Christoph Stephinger Dominique Kim, Pascale Rousse-Lacordaire, Philippe Arrieus, ondéa Münchner Opernfestspiele 2011

18 July 2011 Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Myung-Whun Chung performs Les Offrandes oubliees Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms), London, UK.

23 - 31 July 2011, The festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije will explore the relation between sounds and colours. Works performed include Le Merle bleu and la Bouscarle (extract from Catalogue d'Oiseaux) Fantaisie for violin et piano, Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, Le Merle Noir, Harawi, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus. La Meiji, France.

29 July 2011 at 8.00pm Michael Collins, Clarinet Philippe Graffin, Violin Louise Hopkins, Cello Piers Lane, Piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Townsville Civic Theatre Townsville 4810, Australia.

August 5 -6 2011 at 7.30pm West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Simone Young, soloists tba perform Concert a quatre (Australian premiere) Perth Concert Hall, Australia.

August 13 2011, 4.30pm Joaquin Valdepenas, clarinet, Bing Wang, violin, Brinton Smith, cello, Steven Osborne, piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps Harris Concert Hall, Aspen Music Festival, USA.

24 August 20117.30pm Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra/Myung-Whun Chung perform Les offrandes oubliees Edinburgh International Festival 2011 - Usher Hall Edinburgh Scotland.

26 August 2011 7pm Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ingo Metzmacher perform L'Ascension. Finlandia Hall, Helsinki (Helsinki Festival), Finland.

2 September 2011 7.30pm Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Jonathan Nott, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano perform Chronochomie; Sept Haikai Usher Hall Edinburgh Scotland.

2 September 2011 7.30pm Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra/David Robertson perform Chronochromie. KKL Lucerne, Concert Hall.

8 September 2011 8pm Christine Schafer, soprano, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano perform Poemes pour Mi. Schloss Weimar, Weimar, Germany.

10 September 2011 8pm Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Jonathan Nott perform Chronochromie. Concertgebouw, Bruges.

13-14 September 2011, 8pm Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal/Kent Nagano Angela Hewitt, piano, Jean Laurendeau, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie OSM Hall, Montreal, Canada.

13 September 2011 7.30pm Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Yannick Nezet-Seguin perform Les Offrandes oubliees KKL Lucerne, Concert Hall.

14 September 2011 7.30 pm Almut Rößler, organ, plays "Les corpes glorieux" and "Messe de la Pentecote", Church St.Peter & Paul, Görlitz, Germany.

15 September 2011 7.30pm National Radio Orchestra/James Gaffigan Peter Donohoe, piano, Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. George Enescu Festival Grand Place Hall, Bucharest, Romania.

16 September 2011 19:30 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Søndergård, Conductor perform Les offrandes oubliées. St David's Hall, Cardiff. Wales

17 September 2011 7.30 pm Eric Lebrun, organ, plays "La Nativite du Seigneur", Church St. Peter & Paul, Görlitz, Germany.

17 September 2011 7.30-10 pm, Cambridge Symphonic Winds Conductor: Richard Hull perform Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum. St Giles Church, Castle St
Cambridge, UK. see more details.

20 September 2011 7:30pm Mercury Quartet Antoine Françoise piano Vlad Maistorovici violin Harry Cameron-Penny clarinet Corentin Chassard cello perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. The Forge Camden, 3-7 Delancey Street, NW1 7NL UK.

25 September 2011 8pm Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin/Ingo Metzmacher perform L'Ascension. Philharmonie, Berlin Germany.

25 September 2011 15:00 Niklas Andersson, Clarinet, Malin Broman, Violin, Jesper Svedberg, Cello, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps Gustaf Vasa Kyrka, Stockholm, Sweden.

30 September 2011 20:30 Horizons Choir / Françoise Macciochi, Saint-Maur Ensemble instr., Jean-Louis Roblin (piano), Nathalie Forget (ondes), Olivier Kaspar (cond.) will perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine, Auditorium Jean-Philippe Rameau, CRR, St Maur-des-Fossés, France.

2 October 2011 16:00 Horizons Choir / Françoise Macciochi, Saint-Maur Ensemble instr., Jean-Louis Roblin (piano), Nathalie Forget (ondes), Olivier Kaspar (cond.) will perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine. In the same concert: Les Corps Glorieux, le Livre d'orgue, Messe de la Pentecôte, extracts, Eric Lebrun (organ); Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus, extracts, Marie Vermeulin (piano). Eglise Saint François d'Assise, Paris, France.

8 October 2011 11:00 Hetna Regitze Bruun, Mezzo-soprano Kristoffer Hyldig, Piano perform Harawi. Leeds College of Music, Leeds, UK.

16 October 2011 6:30 PM Peter Hill, piano. The music of Olivier Messiaen, La Colombe (from Préludes, 1929), Cantéyodjayâ (1949) L'Alouette lulu (from Catalogue d'oiseaux) Toru Takemitsu, and J.S. Bach. (le) poisson rouge 158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, New York, USA.

16 October 2011 19:30 Chicago Chamber Musicians Larry Combs, Clarinet Jasmin Lin, Violin Clancy Newman, Cello Meng-Chieh Liu, Piano perfrom Quartet for the End of Time. Merit School of Music: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, IL USA.

16 October 2011 8:00 pm. Lucy Shelton, soprano, Cristina Stanescu, piano perform Harawi. Olin Hall, Bard College Conservatory of Music, New York, NY 12504-5000. USA.

17 October 2011 19:30 Chicago Chamber Musicians Larry Combs, Clarinet Jasmin Lin, Violin Clancy Newman, Cello Meng-Chieh Liu, Piano perfrom Quartet for the End of Time. Merit School of Music: Gottlieb Hall, Chicago, IL USA.

21 October 2011 6pm Pascal Cocheril, violin, Olivier Lacour, cello, Pierre Genisson, clarinet, Francois Dumont, piano perform Quatuor por la fin du Temps Theatre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France.

21 October 2011 (7pm), 22 (3pm) NHK Symphony Orchestra/Andre Previn Momo Kodama, piano, Takashi Harada, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

28 October 2011 8 pm Leipziger Streichquartett and Olga Gollej, piano and Marco Thomas, clarinet plays Quatour pour la fin du temps. Leipzig, Gewandhaus, Germany.

28-29 October 2011 - 20 h. - Philharmonisches Staats Orchester Mainz / Markus Becker, piano - Thomas Bloch, ondes Martenot - Hermann Bäumer, cond. perform Turangalîla Symphonie. Grosses Haus, Mainz.

3 November 2011 (7pm), 4& 5 (8pm) National Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen, Peter Serkin, piano perform Reveil des oiseaux Concert Hall Kennedy Center, Washington DC. USA.

5 November 2011 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra David Robertson conductor Cynthia Millar ondes-martenot Nicolas Hodges piano perform Turangalîla Symphony. Barbican Centre, London, UK. Pre-concert talk 6pm Fountain Room.

8 November 2011 7pm Piano Duo Antithesis perform Visions de l'Amen. Performance Space, City University London UK

9 November 2011 8pm Orchestre de Paris/Paavo Jarvi perform Les Offrandes oubliees. Salle Pleyel, Paris France.

11 November 2011 7:30 pm. Olivier Latry, organ All-Messiaen Program. Apparition de l’église éternelle, Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace, Selections from Livre du Saint Sacrement, Messe de la Pentecôte, Livre d’orgue, and La Nativité du Seigneur. Alice Tully Hall—Lincoln Center New York, NY 10023, USA.

13 November 2011 8pm Magdalena Kozená mezzo soprano and Malcolm Martineau piano perform Poèmes poue Mi. Salle de Musique de Chambre, Luxembourg 4112.

16 November 2011 New Sound Worlds: Matthew Schellhorn, piano and Nathalie Forget, Ondes Martenot perform Oraison, extract from Fêtes des belles eaux. Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland. Details

18 - 19 November 2011 8pm Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin/Tugan Sokhiev perform Les Offrandes oubliees. Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany.

19 November 2011 Matthew Schellhorn, piano and Nathalie Forget, Ondes Martenot perform Oraison, extract from Fêtes des belles eaux. The Model, Sligo, Ireland. Details

23 November 2011 19:30 Peter Hill: Birds on 88 Keys. Earth Music Bristol. Messiaen, Catalogue d'oiseaux, for solo piano. Works by Ravel and Takemitsu. St George's Bristol, UK.

3 December 2011, 8.00pm. Michael Schönheit, Organ, plays La Nativite du Seigneur Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany.

6 December 2011 20.00 Un jardin musical. Louise Bessette, piano performs Petites esquisses d'oiseaux. Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Canada.

14-15 December 2011, 7.30pm Prague Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Tamayo Carole Sidney Louis, soprano perform Poemes pour Mi. Smetana Hall, Prague. CzR.

15 December 2011 8pm Orchestra of St Luke's and Chamber Chorus/Robert Spano. Ondes Martenot, Jean Laurendeau and piano Margaret Kampmeier perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine. Carnegie Hall, New York, USA.

18 December 2011 3pm National Orchestra of Belgium/Jun Markl perfrom Un sourire Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels Belgium.

18 December 2011 5.30pm Colin Walsh, the Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral performs La Nativite du Seigneur. Lincoln Cathedral Lincolnshire LN2 1PL. UK.

18 December 2011 6pm Simon Johnson, organ performs La Nativite du Seigneur. St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK.

25 December 2011 3pm Carl-Axel Dominique, piano performs Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jesus. Storkyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden.

26 December 2011 12 noon Eberhard Lauer, organ performs La Nativite du Seigneur St Marien Dom, Hamburg, Germany.

2012

12 January 2012 8:00pm. Paul Jacobs performs Livre du Saint Sacrament. UCLA Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive , Westwood, CA 90024 USA

13 January 2012 7.30pm Rolf Hind, piano performs Canteyodjaya. Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama UK.

14 January 2012 8 pm. MDR Sinfonieorchester, MDR Rundfunkchor, Conductor Michael Sanderling performs Chant des Deportes and O sacrum convivium, Leipzig, Gewandhaus, Germany.

14 January 2012 (8am), 15 (11am), 16 (8pm) Staatskapelle Dresden/Yannick Nezet-Seguin perform Les Offrandes oubliees. Semperoper, Dresden, Germany.

14 January 2012 8pm Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Emilio Pomarico Roger Muraro, piano perform Couleurs de la Cite Celeste. Herkulessaal, Munich. Germany.

15 January 2012 10am L'Esprit de Paris Chamber Music Festival Chants de terre et de ciel artists tba. 7.30pm Quartet for the end of time Jan Talich or Roman Patocka, violin, Petr Prause, cello, Lynsey Marsh, clarinet, Jeremy Young, piano. Concert Hall Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.

19 January 2012 7.30pm Halle Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder perform L'Ascension. The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK.

19 January 2012 (7.45pm), 21 (7.45pm) & 22 (3.30pm) Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer Dejan Lazic, piano perform Oiseaux exotiques. Bela Bartok International Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary.

22 January 2012 3:00 pm Joseph Arndt and Michael Hey, organists perform La Nativité du Seigneur. Wes Sherman, abstract artist Mr. Sherman presents art work inspired by the music of Messiaen. A free-will offering will be received. Grace Church 950 Broad Street Newark, NJ 07102 USA.

23 January 2012 8pm Hamburg Symphony Orchestra perform Des Canyons aux Étoiles. Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC, USA.

26-27 January 2012 7.30pm Prague Symphony Orchestra and Women's section of the Kuhn Mixed Choir/Jiri Kout, Miroslav Sekera, piano, Bruno Perrault, ondes Martenot perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine. Smetana Hall, Prague, CzR.

26 January 2012 Matthew Schellhorn, piano and Nathalie Forget, Ondes Martenot perform Oraison, extract from Fêtes des belles eaux. Conservatoire de Musique et d'Art Dramatique, 8 rue Jules Cardock, 59640 Dunkerque, France. Details

27 January 2012 7pm Tampere Philharmonic/Hannu Lintu Angela Hewitt, piano, Valerie Hartmann-Claverie, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. Tampere Hall, Finland.

29 January 2012 4pm Hamburg Symphony Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate Francesco Tristano, piano, Daniel Landau, filmmaker. Des canyons aux etoiles...Hill Auditorium, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor. USA.

2 February 2012 7pm Christopher Stokes, organ performs La Nativite du Seigneur. Manchester Cathedral, UK.

11 February 2012 20.30 Hommage à Olivier Messiaen. Concert spécial à l'occasion du 20ème anniversaire de la disparition d'Olivier Messiaen. 10 jeunes organistes se partageront les claviers de l'orgue Cavaillé-Coll de l'église Saint-Antoine pour interpréter les plus belles pages d'Oliviers Messiaen. Eglise Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France.

12 February 2012 6pm Jonathan Ayerst, piano performs Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus I & X. Coro Casa da Musica/Kaspars Putnins, conductor perform Cinq rechants. Casa da Musica - Sala Suggia, Porto

12 February 2012 4pm Celebrating Messiaen on the 20th anniversary of his death, Larry J Long, organ performs Apparition de l'Eglise eternelle and excerpts from Les corps glorieux, Messe de la Pentecote, Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte Trinite, Livre du Saint Sacrament, La Nativite du Seigneur. Church of the Epiphany, New York, USA.

29 February 2012 7.30pm Matthew Schellhorn piano performs La fauvette des jardins. Bath Spa Live, Bath, UK.

3 March 2012 6pm Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto Casa da Musica/Antoni Wit perform L'Ascension. Casa da Musica - Sala Suggi, Porto

7 March 2012 8.00 pm West-Eastern- Divan Soloists perform Quatuour pour le fin de temps. Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie Berlin, Germany

8 March 2012 7.30pm West-Eastern Divan Soloists perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London UK.

8 March 2012 8pm Latvian Radio Choir/Kaspars Putnins perform O sacrum convivium; Cinq rechants. Concertgebouw, Bruges.

9 - 10 - 11 March 2012 8pm Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Christian Thielemann Jane Archibald, soprano perform Poemes pour Mi. Philharmonie, Berlin Germany.

14 - 15 - 16 March 2012 7.30pm Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich/Vladimir Jurowski Roger Muraro, piano perform Oiseaux exotiques. Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland.

17 March 2012 New World Symphony/Reinbert de Leeuw Igor Roma, piano, Valerie Hartman-Claverie, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie New World Center, Miami, USA.

25 March 2012 New World Symphony/Reinbert de Leeuw Igor Roma, piano, Valerie Hartman-Claverie, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. New World Center, Miami, USA.

25 March 2012 3pm Pre-concert talk. 4pm Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 1-4. 6pm Catalogue d'oiseaux Books 5-7. 7.30pm La Fauvette des jardins. Roderick Chadwick, piano. David Josefowitz Recital Hall Royal Academy of Music London.UK

27 March 2012 8.00 pm Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Philharmonie, Essen, Germany.

29 March 2012 8.00 pm Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie Philhamonie Berlin, Germany.

30 March 2012 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Erlangen, Germany.

31 March 2012 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Heidelberg, Heidelberger Frühling, Germany.

31 March 2012 3pm Koninklijk Conservatorium Sympfonie Orkest/Jac van Steen perform Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. Muziek in de Cathrien, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

30 March 2012 8.30pm Bernhard Nusser, clarinet, Nari BRandner, violin, Mathias Donderer, cello, Wolfgang Kuhnl, piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany.

30 March 2012 8.15pm Radio Filharmonisch Orkest/Jun Markl perform Un sourire. Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht.

31 March 2012, 2pm Louise Bessette and Peter Hill, pianos perform Visions de l'Amen. Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal. Canada.

1 April 2012 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Hamburg, Laeiszhalle, Germany.

2 April 2012 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Frankfurt, Alte Oper, Germany.

3 April 2012 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Cond. Kristjan Järvi, Tamara Stefanovich piano and Thomas Bloch Ondes Martenot perform Turangalila- Symphonie. Ludwigsburg, Forum am Schlosspark, Germany.

5 April 2012 8pm Jeremy Begbie and Cordelia Willaims, pianos perform Visions de l'Amen. Preceded at 11am in Corpus Playroom, St Edward's Passage by Illuminating Messiaen exhibition and at 7pm (same venue) by Illuminating Messiaen talk by David Owen-Norris on Visions...King's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.

20 April 2012 7.30pm Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois; Choeur de Jade/Laurent Gendre, Christian Chamorel piano, Jacques Tchamkerten, ondes Martenot perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine. Salle Equilibre, Fribourg (Switzerland)

21 April 2012— 8:00 pm Mark Alan Hilt, organ performs Meditation No. 2 & Meditation No. 5 from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity,1969) Dieu parmi nous (God Among Us) from La Nativite du Seigneur (The Nativity, 1935). First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, 1220 Second Street, CA 90401 USA.

27 11.15am-28 April 2012 8pm Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart perform Les Offrandes oubliees. Uihlein Hall, Milwaukee, USA. www.jacarandamusic.org

28 April 2012 7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra/Tortelier perform Les Offrandes Oubliés. Royal Festival Hall, London, UK.

28 April 2012 Northern Sinfonia - The Late Mix perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Sage: Hall Two, Gateshead, UK.

3-4 May 2012 8pm Orquestra Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon/Ludovic Morlot Steven Osborne, piano, Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie Auditoria Miguel Sinfonica, Castilla y Leon, Spain.

4 May 2012 8pm Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/George Benjamin Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano perform Reveil des oiseaux and the world premiere of a new work for piano and orchestra by Tristan Murail. Herkulessaal, Munich. Germany.

11 May 2012 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart perform Les Offrandes oubliees. Carnegie Hall, New York Spring for Music Festival NY.USA.

12 May 2012 8pm Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Ryusuke Numajiri, Catherine Cournot, piano perform Sept Haikai. CentQuatre, Paris, France.

13 May 2012 11.15am Felix-Andreas Genner, clarinet, Yukiko Ishibashi, violin, Ioana Geangalau, cello, Eckart Heiligers, piano perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Tonhalle (Kleiner Saal), Zurich.

16-17 May 2012 19.00 hr - Robert-Schumann Philharmonie - / Turangalîla Symphonie / Kristi Becker, piano - Thomas Bloch, ondes Martenot - Frank Beermann, cond. Städtische Theater Chemnitz.

16 May 2012 8pm Magdalene Kozena, soprano Mitsuko Uchida, piano perform Poemes pour Mi. Rudolfinum - Dvorak Hall, Prague (Prague Spring Festival).

22 May 2012 - Festival LeFrench May / - City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong - Thomas Bloch, ondes Martenot - Jean Thorel, cond. perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (also Concertino alla Francese for ondes Martenot solo, strings orchestra and percussion by Jacques Charpentier) Hong Kong.

31 May 2012 (8pm), 1 June (1.30pm), 3 June(8pm), 5 (7.30pm) Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus/Ludovic Morlot, Stewart Goodyear, piano, ondes Martenot tba perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine. Symphony Center, Chicago USA.

3 June 2012 6pm Ludwig Kaiser, organ performs Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte Trinite. Johanneskirche Frohnau, Berlin, Germany.

3 June 2012 (11am), 5 (8pm) Gurzenich-Orchester Koln/Christian Zacharias perform Un sourire. Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany.

9 June 2012 2.15pm Radio Filharmonisch Orkest & Groot Omroepvrouwenkoor/Reinbert de Leeuw, soloists tba perform Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine.
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland.

5 July 2012 20.00 Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs selections from Préludes. Mülheim a. d. Ruhr | Stadthalle Mülheim | Theatersaal. Germany.

11 - 24 July 2012 20:00 Australian Chamber Orchestra perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. QPAC: Lyric Theatre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
see website for full details of ACO tour of Quatuor pour la fin du temps and L'Ascension .

1 August 2012 7.30pm National Youth Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko Joanna MacGregor, piano ondes Martenot tba perform Turangalila Symphonie. Symphony Hall Birmingham, UK.

16 - 18 - 19 August 2012 - Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria perform Turangalîla Symphonie François Weigel, piano Thomas Bloch, ondes Martenot, José Arean, cond. Sala Nezahualcoyotl Mexico City. Mexico.

22 November 2012 8:00pm Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Eckehard Stier: Conductor perform L’Ascension. Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE, 303 Queen St, Auckland. NZ.

2013

31 January 2013 8pm Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. Benaroya Hall, Seattle, USA.

1 February 2013 Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano with Seattle Symphony musicians perform Quartet for the end of Time. Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Seattle, USA.

2 February 2013 8pm Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot perform Turangalila Symphonie. Benaroya Hall, Seattle, USA.

19 March 2013 6pm Ensemble ACJW/Robert Spano perform Des canyons aux etoiles... Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.

10 May 2013 7.30pm Renaud Capucon, violin, Gautier Capucon, cello, Denis Kozhukhin, piano, Jorg Widmann, clarinet perform Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. UK

29 May 2013 7.30pm Steven Osborne, piano performs Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK.

July 2013 Gerald Finley performs the title role in and St Francois d’Assise with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert performance under Alan Gilbert. New York, USA.










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