The Voice Of The Birds – Olivier Messiaen, Composer And Ornithologist

For Olivier Messiaen, birds were “the greatest musicians inhabiting our planet”. Their endless melodies with the finest tonal gradations, their diverse singing and the infinite variety of rhythms were Messiaen’s lifeblood. For him birds were something metaphysical, a direct link to God. The film portrays the life of the composer and ornithologist Messiaen through musical examples and narratives of selected interlocutors: conductor Kent Nagano, cellist Camille Thomas, Ondes Martenot player Nathalie Forget, organist Thomas Lacôte, Messiaen biographer Peter Hill, DJ and biologist Dominik Eulberg and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who explains Messiaen’s “Catalogue d'oiseaux” (Catalogue of Birds – concert separately available).

• GENREGÉNERODocumentary: Portrait
• STATUSESTATUS DEL PROGRAMAcompleted
• Production CompanyProductoraARTE
• Production CompanyProductoraSWR
• TV DirectorTV DirectorHolger Preuße
• TV DirectorTV DirectorPhilipp Quiring
• PRODUCTION YEARAÑO DE PRODUCCIÓN2022
• DURATIONDURACIÓN52'
• SOURCE VIDEO/AUDIOFORMATO VÍDEO/AUDIOHD recording / Stereo
• ASPECT RATIORELACIÓN DIMENSIONAL1 : 1.78 (16:9)
• RECORDING COMPRESSIONCOMPRESIÓNApple ProRes (specify flavour)