Olivier Messiaen Trailers
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Most Popular Olivier Messiaen Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse Trailer (1966)
20 April 1966
Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend.
Olivier Messiaen: The Crystal Liturgy Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
A portrait of French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), through archival films from 1964 to 1987.
A Private Music Lesson with Yvonne Loriod Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Yvonne Loriod was not only an incredible performer of the music of her time, but also Olivier Messiaen's muse, the one in whom and for whom he found the natural and concrete extension of his art, of his inspiration.
Cinema Exercises Trailer (2007)
27 June 2007
A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
London Symphony Orchestra: Bruckner & Messiaen Trailer (2018)
25 May 2018
Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO are joined by revered French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in a concert film that brings together music by Anton Bruckner and Olivier Messiaen: two composers as united in their devotion to the Catholic faith as they are divergent in their approaches to writing music.
Olivier Messiaen and the Birds Trailer (1973)
22 April 1973
"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching.
Saint François d'Assise Trailer (2009)
28 April 2009
Messiaen's breathtakingly intense opera on the life of St Francis of Assisi stars Rod Gilfry as the charismatic visionary, beguiled by the glory of creation, yet fearful of both its imperfections and its transience.
The Great Rehearsals: Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum Trailer (1965)
11 November 1965
"Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum", the work by Olivier Messiaen, was a commission by the Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux and was to be performed on the 20 June 1965 at Chartres Cathedral, in the presence of President Charles de Gaulle.
Quartet for the End of Time Trailer (2017)
15 January 2017
A music documentary about Olivier Messiaen's transcendent masterpiece, that he composed in a World War II prison camp, and debuted there on January 15, 1941.
The Window Cleaner Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A window cleaner suffers from a fear of heights, until he is seduced by one of his customers.
Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla-Symphonie Orchestre de Paris Trailer (2022)
01 January 2022
Under the baton of charismatic Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestre de Paris performs Olivier Messiaen's most famous work: The ambitious and beguiling Turangalîla-Symphonie.
Quartet for the End of Time Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
The story of a young man who lives alone in his house, and his indifference and solitude with the world around him.
Benilde or the Virgin Mother Trailer (1975)
21 November 1975
A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.
The Last Summer Trailer (1969)
31 December 1969
Observations of a space and (last) time, of a landscape and the people who inhabit it. The first chapter of the Flowers of Eringyum cycle, the film portrays the family background where the individual journey begins, the rituals of middle-class life, their representations (also in home movies), and what they may conceal.
Peace Project With Patricia Kopatchinskaja Trailer (2024)
07 November 2024
In memory of the countless victims of armed conflict, Patricia Kopatchinskaja presents a concert conceived as a mosaic of deeply moving music and texts from a wide variety of sources and authors.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Performs Olivier Messiaen Trailer (2021)
01 January 2021
French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays pieces from Olivier Messiaen's "Catalogue d'oiseaux" in Berlin's St Canisius Church.
