Tom's Messiaen vlog : Episode 17

In this episode of Tom's Messiaen vlog, he takes an overview of Messiaen’s Messe de la Pentecote, performing passages from this five-movement work on the organ at Blackburn Cathedral. He discusses Messiaen’s extraordinary explorations of musical materials and techniques in the years following the Second World War, and the issues around registering Messiaen’s music on different organs.
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