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| ARTIST: | Fred Sherry, Richard Stoltzman, Peter Serkin, Ida Kavafian, Olivier Messiaen, Tashi |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | RCA |
| TYPE: | Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Mixed Chamber Ensemble with Keyboard |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Quartet For The End Of Time: Liturgy of Crystal, Quartet For The End Of Time: Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of Time, Quartet For The End Of Time: Abyss of the birds, Quartet For The End Of Time: Interlude, Quartet For The End Of Time: Praise to the Eternity of Jesus, Quartet For The End Of Time: Danse of Fury, for the seven trumpets, Quartet For The End Of Time: Cluster of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of Time, Quartet For The End Of Time: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 078635783520 |
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Customer Reviews of Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Unique and Interesting Oliver Messiaen's music takes some getting used to. It's not unlike some of Stravinsky's works, but doesn't quite fit into any particular category. This particular work was written in a German prison camp and first performed there in 1941. Some people might want to buy it just for the historical significance, but I encourage you to buy it because it is downright interesting and enjoyable music. This might not be the best first album to buy as an introduction to Messiaen, as it's not his best work. It is somewhat subdued music; not particularly upbeat or awesome. It's not meant to be. Still well worthy of 5-stars.
An unmissable tribute to a composer calling on mysticism in a time of anguish
Peter Serkin championed Messiaen long before most American musicians did, and this 1976 tribute marked a definite break in public image from his father, Rudolf Serkin, who I am sure never recorded a piece of French music, from any era, in his life. I don't know how the reviewer below manages to get 98 people to approve of his reviews in a matter of weeks (!); however, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time wasn't written in a ocncentration camp but a POW camp (the former being a death camp), and there is nothing political about this work. In fact, all of Messiaen's mystical Catholic refernces are generally impossible to match to the kind of music he writes.
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>The expression markings here include such words as extatique, paradisiaque, avec amour, terrible. Tashi takes ecstasy, paradise, and love to heart. Theirs is a delicate reading, and they take pains to find added wit, color, and sensuousness in Messiaen's idiom, which can get cryptic and tiresome over the long haul. Not here--Stoltzman in particular brings out an amazing range of tone in his clarinet playing.
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>This is Messiaen's most popular work because of its overall serenity and its lack of tough dissonances. After Tashi, no one will ever perform it better, I imagine, even though there are other approaches that would bring out the work's more overt romanticism and song. Highly recommended.
Restoration: A Work of Art for the Soul as a Troubled Year Ends
On the last day of a year that has been fraught with calamity, war, disease, natural disasters, disillusionment with government, and countless personal tragedies, this wholly successful work offers a sense of balance just as it did at its premiere in January of 1941 in the presence of a Nazi concentration camp.
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>Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet, & piano by Olivier Messiaen is a challenging musical masterpiece not only in its construction but also in its message. Though there are gratefully many recordings of this deeply moving quartet available, this performance by Tashi - Ida Kavafian violin, Peter Serkin piano, Fred Sherry cello, and Richard Stoltzman clarinet - retains its position as the most important interpretation available.
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>So much has been written about this whisper to the sanctity of the human soul that both books and endless reviews abound. Most people know the history of the work's writing and premiere. But the proof of a great masterpiece lies in the viability of the work through time and by judgment on its own merits. Recommendation: spend time with this very affordable recording and get to know this Messiaen classic through this performance while it remains available. It is superlative in every way. Grady Harp, December 05