Quartet for the End of Time

Album by Olivier Messiaen & Houston Symphony Chamber Players & Christoph Eschenbach

Quartet for the End of Time is a chamber composition by French composer Olivier Messiaen, composed and first performed in 1941. It combines modal harmony, complex rhythmic cycles and motifs inspired by birdsong and religious themes to create austere, meditative textures for an unconventional quartet, and it marks a pivotal work in Messiaen's early output and in twentieth-century chamber music.

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  1. 1.
    Quartet for the End of Time: I. Liturgie de cristal
    2:59
  2. 2.
    Quartet for the End of Time: II. Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
    5:27
  3. 3.
    Quartet for the End of Time: III. Abîme des oiseaux
    11:10
  4. 4.
    Quartet for the End of Time: IV. Intermède
    1:55
  5. 5.
    Quartet for the End of Time: V. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus
    8:54
  6. 6.
    Quartet for the End of Time: VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
    6:03
  7. 7.
    Quartet for the End of Time: VII. Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
    7:25
  8. 8.
    Quartet for the End of Time: VIII. Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus
    7:46

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