Best Music 1. National Symphony Orchestra: Christoph Eschenbach conducts Messiaen’s massive “Turangalila-Symphonie” featuring pianist Cedric Tiberghien and Tristan Murail playing the ondes martenot, an electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 using vacuum tubes to create wavering notes. Regarded as a 20th-century masterpiece, the title is taken from two Sanskrit words referring to love and death.