Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa Classical Alpha

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa

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AJ 1048

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Murail: Stalag VIIIa

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA1048

Release Date: November 2023
Originally recorded in November 2023

Genre:
Classical

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Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp. Het Collectif explores this work, never forgetting that it was at the heart of this harsh winter of war, in a context of misfortune, confinement and deprivation, that Messiaen had an angel speak, promising paradise and the end of time... Stalag VIIIa , composed by Tristan Murail, whose title refers to Olivier Messiaen's place of detention in Görlitz in 1940, completes this programme.

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“…This performance [Quartet for the End of Time] by Het Collectief is expressive and warm, though the strident sections are full of turbulent energy. The piano often seems to play at a veiled distance – a wonderful atmospheric touch – yet comes through clearly enough; the clarinet has a round, rich sonority; the cello and violin are poetic and deeply musical…”

Jack Sullivan – American Record Guide – May/June 2024

Crescendo Joker

Sound 9 Booklet 8 Repertoire 10 Interpretation 10

Jean Lacroix – Crescendo magazine.be – 29 February 2024

***** Coup de cœur

Jérémie Bigorie – Classica magazine (France) – February 2024

“… Their interpretation [of the Messiaen] and the close-focused recording, featuring an overtone-rich, almost trumpet-like clarinet, are ideal for the episodes dominated by birdsong and dancelike music…”

Arnold Whittall – Gramophone magazine – January 2024

Pizzicato Supersonic

“…Stalag VIII A by Murail, in its approach to the worlds of his teacher Messiaen, is a prelude that is easy to perform, in which the ensemble carefully and sensitively prepares the way for the quartet. This introductory composition thus offers a sound context from our time, which is a fitting accompaniment to Messiaen’s actually solitary quartet.”

Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 18 November 2023

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