Yvonne Loriod, who died on Monday aged 86, was a celebrated French pianist, a champion of the electronic ondes Martenot instrument, and a specialist in the music of her husband, Olivier Messiaen. 18 ...

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Yvonne Loriod, the French pianist whose musical exactitude and intensity inspired numerous masterpieces by her husband, the composer Olivier Messiaen, died on Monday at a retirement home in ...

In 1988 Marc Soustrot conducts the Australian Chamber Orchestra and pianist Yvonne Loriod in Messiaen's epic 'From the Canyons to the Stars', performed in the presence of the composer. In the winter ...

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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 ...

On Dec. 16, pianist Daniel Parker plays a recital at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that, even as the winter solstice approaches, sneaks in a robin of spring — in the guise of Olivier ...

Jeanne Loriod, the leading performer on an electronic instrument used in film scores from “Lawrence of Arabia” to “Mars Attacks!” and in many symphonic works to produce mysterious glassy tones and ...

Jeanne Loriod, leading performer of the ondes martenot, an electronic instrument whose haunting wail was used in such film scores as “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Mad Max” and “Mars Attacks!,” died of a ...

Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot ...