Anzu Quartet: Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - COMPACT DISCS

Anzu Quartet: Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - COMPACT DISCS

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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Artist:

Anzu Quartet

Label:

Cantaloupe

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

713746321321

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-02-20

Number of Discs:

1

Widely regarded among the most important chamber works of the 20th century, Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps is a world within itself, a profound rumination on the concept of eternity - and, owing to it's legendary and mythical stature as a work of resistance, an integral part of the European classical standard repertoire for several generations.As such, the Quatuor is still the oldest piece in the repertoire of New York's Anzû Quartet, whose members - Olivia de Prato (violin), Ashley Bathgate (cello), Ken Thomson (clarinet), and Karl Larson (piano) - view the work as a catalyst for much of the contemporary music they perform today. Inspired by the lauded 1976 recording by the TASHI quartet, the group follows in some giant footsteps while digging deep into the original score with a renewed sense of rhythmic vitality, seeking to render Messiaen's pivotal work as powerful today as it was when he first composed it as a prisoner of war in 1940-41.

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