Spotlight Chamber Music Series IV at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 13 Dec. In a WW2 POW camp, Olivier Messiaen wrote Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for his available instruments, capturing feelings of pain, fury and calm.
In a prisoner-of-war camp during the early days of World War II, French composer Olivier Messiaen created what would become one of the seminal chamber music masterpieces of the 20th Century: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Written for the instruments and players available to him (clarinet, violin, cello and piano), this extraordinary work unfolds over fifty minutes and takes the listener from desolate pain and whirling fury to a vision of eternity in passages of ethereal calm.
Musicians:
Mia Cooper – Violin
Aoife Burke – Cello
Macdara Ó Seireadáin – Clarinet
Fiachra Garvey – Piano
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