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 ...

A celebration of birdsong and the music inspired by it ... opportunity to hear Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s performances of Olivier Messiaen’s 150-minute-long work for piano, Catalogue d'Oiseaux ...

But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went one step further than them all by having his own field recordings of birds star as the solo instrument in his 1972 piece “Cantus Arcticus: Concerto ...