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...their sound evokes both the work's wartime genesis and its religious intensity...this disc is more than just a premiere recording [of Fantasie]. This is special playing from a special group... — Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 9th May 2008 More…

Release Date: 12th May 2008
Catalogue No: CKD314
Label: Linn
Length: 73 minutes

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Work length44:24

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Hebrides Ensemble

I. Liturgie de cristal

Track length10:47

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II. Vocalise, pour l'ange qui announce la fin du temps

Track length3:24

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III. Abîme des oiseaux

Track length8:19

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IV. Intermède

Track length6:06

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V. Louange à l'éternité de Jésus

Track length2:41

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VI. Danse de la fureur pour les sept trompettes

Track length4:34

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VII. Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du temps

Track length6:52

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VIII. Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus

Track length1:41

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Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano

Work length7:36

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Hebrides Ensemble

Messiaen: Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes

Work length6:09

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Hebrides Ensemble

Messiaen: Fantaisie

Work length7:01

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Hebrides Ensemble

Messiaen: Le Merle noir for flute and piano

Work length8:41

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Hebrides Ensemble
Recorded: 17-20 March 2007
Recording Venue: St. Mary's Church, Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Includes the first recording of Fantaisie, a work for violin and piano, thought to be lost until it was re-discovered by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and then published in 2007.

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9th May 2008

...their sound evokes both the work's wartime genesis and its religious intensity...this disc is more than just a premiere recording [of Fantasie]. This is special playing from a special group of musicians.

8th June 2008

The novelty on this disc of five items, including the group’s stirring account of Quatuor pour la fin du temps, is the Fantasie for violin and piano, which Messiaen wrote in 1933 to play with his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbos, and which was thought lost until it turned up among the composer’s papers last year. An eight-minute movement, beginning with a defiant, distinctive melody for the piano in octaves, it is in Messiaen’s liveliest, ripest, if early, style. His three-minute Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes is a marvellously incisive, birdsong-inflected tribute to the publisher Alfred Schlee. The flute-and-piano bird piece Le Merle noir is bristlingly despatched.

23rd May 2008

All [the] pieces get vivid, beautifully judged performances from the Hebrides Ensemble, and the account of the much more frequently recorded Quartet stands up well to the competition, too.

31st May 2008

In celebration of Messiaen's centenary, the Hebrides Ensemble gives a quite dark performance of the Quartet for the End of Time. William Conway's cello burns with weighty intensity. In fact, a little spring and lightness would not have gone amiss, especially in the Danse de la Fureur, where the syncopated rhythm lacks bounce. Also included is Le Merle Noir, the black thrush, the first birdsong that Messiaen turned into music. The solo flute burrs authentically.

Olivier Messiaen - Chamber Works

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