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Olivier MESSIAEN: Quartet for the end of Time
  • Olivier MESSIAEN: Quartet for the end of Time

    Min-Jung Kim, piano

    Mats Lidström, cello

    Mark Van de Wiel, clarinet

    Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, violin

     

    Rated 4 by Classica

     

    Composed as a tribute to the Angel of the Revelation, who lifts up his hand to heaven, saying “ There should be Time no longer”, the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps is written in a essentially spiritual musical language, which draws the listener into a sense of the eternity. Its eight movements are based on the perfect number of seven, the creation of six days made holy by the divine Sabbath, which prolongs itself into eternity and becomes the eighth, of unfailing light, of immutable peace.

     

    1 – Liturgie de cristal 2'49
    2 – Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 4'36
    3 – Abîme des oiseaux 7'52
    4 – Intermède 1'46
    5 – Louange à l’Eternité de Jésus 6'49

    6 – Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes 7'04
    7 – Fouillis d’arc-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 7'07
    8 – Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus 7'03

     

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      • “Listening to this CD leads from wonders to wonders: the flare of fireworks! This is a Psalmus CD. With all the captivating and mystical explanatory notes of the composer.” Hervé Pennven, La Nef, December 2018.

    • Reference

      PSAL027

    €15.00Price
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