Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle to present three European performances of Couleurs de la cité céleste, Olivier Messiaen’s rarely-performed musical exploration of the apocalypse.

Paired with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, the tour begins at the Philharmonie Luxembourg on 11 April, with subsequent performances at the Cité de la Musique in Paris on 12 April and London’s Barbican Centre on 14 April.

Pierre-Laurent caps his visit to London with a solo recital at Milton Court Concert Hall on 16 April, performing another work of Messiaen’s inspired by the divine: Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus, an evening-length meditation on the infancy of Jesus.