Messiaen: Quartet For the End of Time; Kurt Rohde: One Wing

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The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble take the Quartet’s shifting instrumental and emotional perspectives in their stride. Pick of the soloists is clarinettist Jerome Simas, who shines in the unaccompanied... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2021 More…

Release Date: 26th Mar 2021
Catalogue No: AV2452
Label: Avie
Length: 58 minutes

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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Work length45:29

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Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

1. Liturgie de cristal (Crystal Liturgy)

Track length2:42

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2. Vocalise, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps (Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of time)

Track length4:54

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3. Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the birds)

Track length7:23

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4. Intermède (Interval)

Track length1:44

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5. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus (Praise to the eternity of Jesus)

Track length8:24

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6. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes (Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets)

Track length6:04

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7. Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps(Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time)

Track length7:02

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8. Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus (Praise to the immortality of Jesus)

Track length7:16

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Rohde: one wing

Work length7:16

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Anna Presler, Eric Zivian
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

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The musicians of San Francisco Bay Area-based Left Coast Chamber Ensemble come together for Olivier Messiaen's seminal chamber work Quartet for the End of Time, and the world-premiere recording of Kurt Rohde's Messiaen-inspired One Wing.

The provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) comprises the crème de la crème of the San Francisco Bay Area's musicians. Their motto: nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible. Presenters of all types of music including small ensemble, vocal, orchestral, multi-media and operatic, a select group comes together for this recording of Olivier Messiaen's seminal chamber work, Quartet for the End of Time. Written during the composer's confinement in World War II, he maintained hope, expressing, "The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs." LCCE co-founder and prize-winning composer Kurt Rohde echoes this sentiment in his Messiaen-inspired one wing for violin and piano, heard here in its world-premiere recording.

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"pathos and passion" San Francisco Classical Voice

"like all of Left Coast's endeavors, the evening married standard repertoire and contemporary works in provocative and beguiling ways" San Francisco Classical Voice

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July 2021

The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble take the Quartet’s shifting instrumental and emotional perspectives in their stride. Pick of the soloists is clarinettist Jerome Simas, who shines in the unaccompanied ‘Abîme des oiseaux’.

Messiaen: Quartet For the End of Time; Kurt Rohde: One Wing

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