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Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Carolin Widmann, Jorg Widmann, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich

1 CD / Orfeo / 2013-01-29

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Altstaedt, Nicolas; Lonquich, Alexander; Widmann, Carolin; Widmann, Jorg

In 2008, the ensemble performed Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the end of time at the Salzburg Festival. Composed in 1940 in a German prisoner-of-war camp,...continue...
Recording information: Osterreichischen Rundfunks Mozarteum (07/26/2008)....continue...

Messiaen: Chamber Music - Quaturo Pour la Fin du Temps; Le Merle Noir; Vocalise Etude; Theme et Variations / Francois Benda, clarinet; Ivan Monighetti, cello; Cedric Pescia, piano; Felix Renggli, flute, Nutrit Stark, violin

1 CD / Genuin / 2012-11-13

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Le merle noir; Vocalise-étude, for soprano & piano (orchestrated as II mvt. of "Concert à quatre"), I/15; Thème et Variations for ...
Performers: Benda, Francois; Monighetti, Ivan; Pescia, Cedric; Renggli, Felix; Stark, Nurit

Genuin presents the 12th release in their Artist Consort series dedicated to the music of Olivier Messian....continue...
Recording information: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany (12/08/2011-12/09/2011)....continue...

A Lotus Blossoming

1 CD / Melba Recordings Import / 2012-03-06

Works: Alexander von Zemlinsky: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 3; Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Liaison

Personnel: Wilma Smith (violin).

Recording information: Iwaki Auditorium....continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin du Temps; Debussy; Bartok / Hansen, Kruse, Winslov, Bevan

1 CD / Scandinavian Classic / 2012-01-31

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Béla Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111
Performers: Bevan, Rosalind; Hansen, Bjarne; Kruse, John; Winslov, Svend

Messiaen Edition

18 CD / Erato / 2011-04-26

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (6), for piano, I/54; Preludes (8) for Piano; Études (4) de rhythme; La nativité du Seigneur; Le banquet céleste; Apparition de l'&e...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Alain, Marie-Claire; Barboteu, Georges; Chauvaut, Rene; Cotton, Roger [Tenor Vocalist]; Deplus, Guy; Dupin, Francois; Fernandez, Huguette; Guigui, Charley; Haniotis, Mario; Ja...
Conductors: Couraud, Marcel; Constant, Marius; Nagano, Kent; Boulez, Pierre
Ensemble: ; Groupe Instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg; ORTF Ensemble "Ars Nova"

This 18-CD set offers a comprehensive overview of Messiaen's work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000. The performers include the composer himself, his wife...continue...

Concerts Under the Dome, Vol. 2

1 CD / Naim Audio Ltd / 2011-01-11

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Quartet for Strings no 9 in D minor, B. 75 (Op.34) (once listed as Op. 43); Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Beaver, Martin; Johnson, Marc; Swan, Andrea; Yeh, John Bruce

Illinois’ three-time Grammy-nominated string quartet! The Vermeer Quartet has performed in almost every major city in North America, Europe, and Australia and has achieved an...continue...

Messiaen: Chamber Works / Hebrides Ensemble

1 Super Audio CD / Linn Records / 2010-03-23

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano; Piece for Piano and String Quartet; Fantasie for Violin and Piano; Le merle noir
Performers: Conway, William
Conductors:
Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble

Import Hybrid-SACD pressing....continue...

Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2010-01-12

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci Sequence is now well established as one of the foremost chamber ensembles in Britain. Composed of musicians of international repute, the ensemble was...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk (04/2008)....continue...

Olivier Messiaen - Complete Edition

32 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2008-12-09

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Preludes (8) for Piano; La fauvette des jardins; Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (6), for piano, I/54; Études (4) de rhythme; Cantéyodjayâ; Rondeau, for piano, I/24;...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Banlaky, Akos; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Barker, Noelle; Cantin, Catherine; Collerette, Hélène; C...
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun; Nagano, Kent; Boulez, Pierre; ; Kreder, Jean-Paul; Davis, Andrew; Chailly, Riccardo; Rickenbacher, Karl Anton
Ensemble: ; Members of the Ensemble Le Madrigal (Members); Sextuor Jeanne Loriod

The 2008 Messiaen celebrations come to an overwhelming climax with this superb 32-CD set of his complete works. This limited edition set from Deutsche Grammophon...continue...

Olivier Messiaen - 100th Anniversary Edition

14 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie; Les offrandes oubliées; Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Chronochromie; Éclairs sur l'au-delà...; Quatuor pour la fin du temps...
Performers: Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Béroff, Michel; Command, Michele; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Hakim, Naji; Hind, Rolf; Langridge, Philip; Loriod, Jeanne; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Messiaen, Oliv...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Baudo, Serge; Dorati, Antal; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Edwards, Terry
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre de Paris; Orchestre de Paris Percussion Ensemble

To celebrate Messiaen's centenary, EMI Classics is releasing a boxed set with of 14 CDs of his greatest music, including 4 CDs of solo organ...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Chronochromie / Dorati, de Peyer, Gruenberg, Pleeth, Béroff, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-10-14

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Chronochromie
Performers: Béroff, Michel; de Peyer, Gervase; Gruenberg, Erich; Pleeth, William
Conductors: Dorati, Antal
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Messiaen's mysterious and immensely powerful 'Quartet for the End of Time', recorded here with Gervase de Peyer giving a transcendent performance on clarinet. Paired with...continue...

Spannungen: Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach [Limited Edition]

14 CD / CAvi Music / 2008-10-14

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2 in A major, Op. 81/B 155; Quartet for Piano and Strings no 2 in E flat major, B. 162 (Op. 87); Trio for Piano and Strings no 3 in F minor, Op. ...
Performers: Adamsky, Thomas; Bühl, Gregor; Bach, Andreas; Behr-König, Anette; Berwaerts, Jeroen; Bohórquez, Claudio; Bouskova, Jana; Brandkamp, Kornelia; Clein, Natalie; Collins, Michael [Conduc...
Conductors: Harding, Daniel;
Ensemble: ; Heimbach Strings 2006

This is a documentation of the best European chamber music festival that features world-class soloists in live recordings....continue...

Messiaen: Quator puor la fin du temps; Chong: Mourning the Murder of an old Banyan Tree

1 CD / Fuga Libera / 2008-09-09

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Kee-Yong Chong: Mourning the Murder of an Old Banyan Tree, for ensemble
Performers: Aerts, Wibert; Dieltjens, Benjamin; Dieltjens, Thomas; Fret, Toon; Vink, Martijn
Conductors: ; Venkov, Ivo
Ensemble: Het Collectief

The Flemish ensemble Het Collectief is back with a truly fascinating program: Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps' combined with a recent work by...continue...

Messiaen: Chamber Works / Schellhorn, et al

1 CD / Signum UK / 2008-09-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Fantasie for Violin and Piano; Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Le merle noir; Piece for Piano and String Quartet; Work(s)
Performers: Clark, James; Cohen, David; Honore, Philippe; Roberts, Rachel [Viola]; Robson, Barnaby; Schellhorn, Matthew; Smith, Kenneth [Flute]

Marking one hundred years since the birth of the composer, Signum Classics are proud to announce the release of a collection of Messiaen's chamber work,...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Les offrandes oubliées, etc / Plane, Gould Piano Trio

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2008-07-29

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano; Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Frith, Benjamin [Piano]; Gould, Lucy; Plane, Robert
Conductors:
Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio

"Their reading of Quatuor pour la fin du Temps is notable for the musician's sense of balance, bringing some lines to the foreground and keeping...continue...

EMI 20th Century Classics - Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie, etc / Loriod, Previn, London SO, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-07-22

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie; Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano
Performers: Beroff, Michel; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Loriod, Jeanne; Loriod, Yvonne [Piano/Composer]; Meyer, Wolfgang [Clarinet]; Poppen, Christoph [Conductor]
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Gramophone Magazine
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Lieberman, Holy Cross Chamber Players

1 CD / Centaur / 2008-06-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors: Lieberman, Carol
Ensemble: Holy Cross Chamber Players

The Holy Cross Chamber Players, founded in 1985, is a mixed ensemble consisting of members of the Holy Cross music department faculty and distinguished guest...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Boeykens

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2006-08-08

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Walter Boeykens

BBC Music Magazine
Once a winner in Radio 3's Building a Library feature, this performance of Messiaen's prison-camp meditation on eternity, enormously but unshowily virtuosic and...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Ensemble Incanto

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-02-14

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Incanto

Messiaens biographer, Alain Prier, wrote: Probably never in the history of composition has a work been written under such improbable circumstances. Messiaen was a prisoner...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, etc / Amici Ensemble

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-06-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano
Performers: Parr, Patricia; St. John, Scott [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Amici Ensemble

Messiaen's use of birdsong and Indian and Greek rhythms gave his music an immediately identifiable character. The "Quartet for the End of Time" was written...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Shaham, Meyer, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2001-01-09

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Chung, Myung-Whun [Conductor/Piano]; Shaham, Gil; Wang, Jian

Myung-Whun Chung has proven to be a great Messiaen interpreter, with an impressive Messiaen discography on DG, and having had the opportunity to work with...continue...

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Mos, Rosengren, etc

1 CD / CD Accord / 2001-01-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Bauer, Andrzej; Mos, Marek; Olejniczak, Janusz; Rosengren, Hakan

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Eschenbach, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 1999-03-23

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Ericson, Eric; Eschenbach, Christoph [Piano/Conductor]; Hoebig, Desmond; Peck, David
Conductors:
Ensemble: Houston Symphony Chamber Players

This is Messiaen's most famous work. For listeners who do not know the music of Messiaen, this is probably the most logical (and approachable) place...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Oleg Kagan, et al

1 CD / Live Classics / 1997-11-03

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Brunner, Eduard; Gutman, Natalia; Kagan, Oleg; Lobanov, Vassili

"Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' is one of those elusive pieces that rarely fails in live performance and hardly ever succeeds in recordings...In...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; Chan Ka Nin / AMICI

1 CD / Summit Records / 1995-10-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Chan Ka Nin: I Think That I Shall Never See..., for clarinet, cello & piano
Performers: Ashkenasi, Shmuel
Conductors:
Ensemble: Amici Quartet

"If you want some modest proof of human progress, consider that Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, once considered the epitome of nutty mysticism,...continue...

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Serkin, Stoltzman

1 CD / RCA Records / 1988-12-06

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Serkin, Peter [Piano]; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Stoltzman, Richard [Clarinet]

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Barenboim, et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1988-06-13

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Desurmont, Claude; Tetard, Albert; Yordanoff, Luben

Messiaen, Bartók / Chamber Music Northwest

1 CD / Delos / 1986-01-01

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Béla Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111
Performers: Bae, Ik-Hwan; Doppmann, William; Lash, Warren; Shifrin, David