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Dans le chef-d'œuvre de Messiaen, c’est une expérience sonore renversante et inoubliable que nous ont offerte les musiciens de l'Orchestre de Paris et les solistes. Un choc sensoriel absolument exaltant !

Simone Young's take on Messiaen's Turangalîla with the Los Angeles Philharmonic proves a night to remember.

Joanna MacGregor and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra bring their 100th season to a triumphant conclusion at the Brighton Dome. 

Steven Osborne was lucid and detailed in his interpretation, lighting the technical fireworks as appropriate and seductive in the long and languid sixth movement, Jardin du sommeil d’amour.

Betsy Jolas delivers a farewell gift – at 96, her own final orchestral work – to Sir Simon Rattle on the occasion of his final Barbican concerts as the LSO's Music Director. 

Mälkki triumphs in the subtleties of Saariaho, stumbles in the ecstasies of Messiaen. 

Revelling in the luscious orchestrations and sumptuous melodies, it was a rare treat to bask in such obvious delight from both conductor and orchestra.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Cynthia Millar joined Franz Welser-Möst for a jaw-dropping performance of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie.

Chances to hear Messiaen's epic Turangalîla-Symphonie are few and far between and should be grasped accordingly.

Sakari Oramo pushes the BBC Symphony Orchestra to breaking point at Symphony Hall

Luis Buñuel's derision at the sense of entitlement of over-privileged, self-righteous prigs shines through a high quality operatic adaptation.

To open the new year, Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot chose a standard work, Beethoven’s Ninth, prefaced with an unusual one by French composer Olivier Messaien. 

Dudamel erreichte in seiner Interpretation ein rundes, harmonisches, "natürliches" Klangbild: er achtete auf musikalischen Fluss, nahm das Publikum mit dieser Musik gefangen. Der Schluss geriet zu einer hinreißenden, ergreifenden Apotheose der Liebe.

Massive forces played with great precision and exquisite sound and balance in Messiaen's complex Turangalîla-symphonie, under the baton of Dudamel.

La Orquesta Simón Bolívar con Dudamel en la dirección ofrecieron una enérgica y brillante Turangalila que enganchó al público del Palau desde el primer momento.

While a powerful and exciting experience, Thursday's performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla ultimately proved a somewhat disappointing and distracting performance.

Jonathan Nott and the London Symphony Orchestra deliver an energetic, precise and intense performance of Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony. 

Despite knowing what was going to happen, it was a still surprising when, amid the chatter and bustle of the audience before the concert (there was a distinct lack of communal coughing before it started), the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain began Tuning Up.

The short life and terrifying death of Joan of Arc are the subject of Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher ("Joan of Arc at the Stake"), a curious masterpiece of an oratorio dating from 1938. The nearly-forgotten work received a well-deserved resurrection by Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night.