NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Olivier Messiaen on 3 February 2020. Olivier Messiaen has been played over 80 times on NTS, first on 8 March 2013. Olivier Messiaen's music has been featured on 74 episodes.

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. Messiaen's music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greece and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen's own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", drawing on his…