Fidelma Nugent has spent 21 years in her beloved role as a primary school teacher, which when you add it up, is close to ...

The lofty ambience of St Margaret’s with its immense timbered roof and restored parquet flooring forms a natural acoustic environment for the sound of trumpets. Not just one, two or three, but up to ...

Three new playlist picks coming right to you from Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of CRB’s ...

One of the many highlights of the ‘Gigs at Gaia’ at this year’s Music Festival is the Yorkshire-based organist, accompanist, ...

The Fox Chamber Singers will be joining with The Assembly, a gospel choir formed by chamber choir member Daniel Hardy, in ...

Leaving Cream behind, his third solo album was a proggy affair, composed in a single sitting, exploring one day in the world of a Glasgow tenement ...

The recording can be found on their new album L’extase, a collection of songs by Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. Debussy was Messiaen’s life-long idol, and their songs are equally colourful, ...

I wasn’t much involved in competitions. I just did one, which I won, the Olivier Messiaen competition for contemporary music. I met Olivier in 1961, when I was 11, and played some of his music ...

Poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts on writing a form-breaking book to re-examine French composer Olivier Messiaen's form-breaking masterwork - Quartet for the End of Time; and going in ...

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison on Dante's Inferno, Michael Symmons Roberts on French composer Olivier Messiaen, and Daniel Swift on Shakespeare's first theatre Jamaica's former ...

It was an unusual event, and not only because of the venue. Written by French composer Olivier Messiaen, the quartet was scored for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, an unconventional combination ...

A poet who explores and questions faith finds inspiration and provocation in the music of Olivier Messiaen, a composer who made ancient faith sing in the secular world “Je suis né croyant.” ...