Blasts from the Past: Olivier Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps

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Chris L

Ah, Quatuor…! Probably the greatest wartime musical document we have, the best efforts of Tippett, Shostakovich, Copland et al. notwithstanding.

It was interesting to compare this with the one other recording I have, the 1991 one with Loriod on piano. Mark Simpson, I think, pips Wolfgang Meyer for intensity in Abîme des Oiseaux…but then I pretty much expected him to! The biggest surprise was how much slower than (albeit just as effective as!) Fischer-Dieskau and Loriod Elschenbroich and Zhang are in the first of the Louanges.

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