Quartet for the End of Time
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich (Cello)
Performer: Elena Urioste (Violin)
Performer: Mark Simpson (Clarinet)
Date of broadcast: 24 August 2014
'Quartet for the End of Time' was first performed in 1941. The venue was Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp where Oliver Messiaen was incarcerated during World War Two. Inspired by passages from the Book of Revelation the work imagines a world beyond time, a realm of discordant confusion, a place where, as Messiaen put it, only the "harmonious silence of heaven" existed.
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich (Cello)
Performer: Elena Urioste (Violin)
Performer: Mark Simpson (Clarinet)
Performer: Zhang Zuo (Piano)
Recording date: 24 June 2014
Date of broadcast: 24 August 2014
