Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 1. Liturgie de cristal
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 2. Vocalise pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du temps
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 3. Abîme des oiseaux
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 4. Intermède
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 5. Louange à l'éternité de Jésus
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 6. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 7. Fouillis d'archs-en-ciel, pour l'ange qui annonce la fin
Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: 8. Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus
Messiaen?s biographer, Alain Périer, wrote: "Probably never in the history of composition has a work been written under such improbable circumstances." Messiaen was a prisoner in a Nazi war camp in 1940. A German offi... more »cer gave him paper and pencil and he wrote this profoundly moving chamber work dedicated "In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse." Eventually, he and some fellow musicians were allowed to play the work before an audience of 5,000 prisoners! "Never," Messiaen recalled, "have I been listened to with so much attention and understanding." The ensemble incanto was founded in 1988 on the occasion of the Messiaen Festival in Hanover.« less
Messiaen?s biographer, Alain Périer, wrote: "Probably never in the history of composition has a work been written under such improbable circumstances." Messiaen was a prisoner in a Nazi war camp in 1940. A German officer gave him paper and pencil and he wrote this profoundly moving chamber work dedicated "In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse." Eventually, he and some fellow musicians were allowed to play the work before an audience of 5,000 prisoners! "Never," Messiaen recalled, "have I been listened to with so much attention and understanding." The ensemble incanto was founded in 1988 on the occasion of the Messiaen Festival in Hanover.