Messiaen: Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus – Floating in Spiritual Amniotic Fluid
Albert Combrink2013-02-19T21:06:21+02:00Olivier Messiaen: Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (1941) for Cello and Piano
from Quatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title, Quartet for the End of Time)
In 1940, Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) was interned in a German prison camp, where he discovered among his fellow prisoners a clarinettist, a violinist and a violoncellist. The success of a short trio which he wrote for them led him to add seven more movements to this Interlude, and a piano to the ensemble, to create the Quartet for the End of Time. Messiaen and [read more…]