This program celebrates Olivier Messiaen, commonly
regarded as the greatest composer of the 20th century, in the centennial
year of his birth.

Michael Kieran Harvey, who has achieved fame
internationally as a foremost interpreter of Messiaen, complements the four
Etudes de rythme and excerpts from the Catalogue d’oiseaux with Australian
composer Carl Vine’s Sonata no. 2. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Sara Macliver,
Sally-Anne Russell & Accademia Arcadia.