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 ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

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 ...

C ountless composers have incorporated birdsong into their music, from Beethoven to Ottorino Respighi to — most famously — Olivier Messiaen. But the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara went ...