Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East.

When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. 

Messiaen's Jardín du sommeil d'amour, (Garden of love's sleep) is otherworldly, dreamy and intoxicating as a whole new world emerges from a pair of entwined sleeping lovers.