Top 5 Favorite Messiaen Works

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I haven't made the purchase yet.....I plan on getting good seats....I'll be saving up!

I didn't go. Was not feeling very well.

[SimonNZ]

I didn't go. Was not feeling very well.

You should check with your classical radio station to see if they taped it for a later broadcast.

[James]

Et exspecto
Bird Catalogue
End of Time
Exotic Birds
Holy Sacrament

[7/4]

I dig the piano music, man.

[Androcles]

1. Le Mystere de la Sainte Trinite
2. Livre du Saint Sacrement
3. Vingt Regards
4. Eclairs sur l'Au Dela
5. Turangalila- Symphonie (I took my 5 year old daughter to see this at the Proms and she really liked it - all the colour and interesting instruments - I'm sure everyone else thought I was crazy to take her to this as her first Prom :-))

Thats a lot of music...

[Gaspard de la nuit]

1. Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
2. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
3. Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine
4. Messe de la Pentecôte
5. Visions de l'Amen

Quatuor pour la fin du temps was life changing for me but it's hard for me to compare it to his other works since I've known it for so much longer.

I also have to mention Chronochromie, Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité and Des canyons aux étoiles...

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I have decided that I will finally explore some more Messiaen because I rarely listen to his music. Shameful thing considering how much I love French music!!!!!!! By the end of the year I should hopefully have a more thought out list of pieces which I can firmly call favourites.

[Dax]

Combat de la mort et de la vie (Les Corps Glorieux)
Regard de l'esprit de joie (especially as played by Thomas Rajna)
Preludes (Yvonne Loriod, NOT Peter Hill!)
Canteyodjaya
Fetes des belles eaux (6 ondes martenots)

I was pleasantly surprised to find a version with score at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDIwk5iXFLM