11K views · 267 reactions | Olivier Messiaen was organist at the Church of Sainte-Trinité in Paris for more than 60 years. Every Sunday he improvised on the organ after mass. There is a video recording from 1985 in which three of these improvisations are recorded. This is the beginning of the first. | History of Music | Facebook

13K views · 543 reactions | Yesterday's live video had no sound at the beginning, so here is a fixed version! It's a selection from Movement VI of Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" with Music Director Alan Gilbert on violin, Principal Cello Carter Brey, Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill, and Artist-in-Association Inon Barnatan on piano. Performed at the Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. | New York Philharmonic | Facebook

315 reactions · 42 shares | Scored for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time incorporates a range of colorful sounds charged with spiritual energy, evoking images of singing birds, rainbows and angels. Experience this journey of musical imagination on CSO Sessions Episode 18. Order now → cso.org/tv | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Facebook