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With Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Jörg Widmann, four outstanding soloists dedicated themselves to Olivier Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps”, a unique work of music history, and performed it together at the "Meetingpoint Music Messiaen" that was built on the site of the former prisoner of war camp just outside of German-Polish town Görlitz/Zgorzelec, exactly where the camp’s so-called "theater barrack" once stood. It was there that Messiaen composed the quartet and on January 15, 1941 performed it for the first time in front of fellow prisoners.
Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Isabelle Faust, violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncello
Jörg Widmann, clarinet
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Recorded at Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen, Görlitz-Zgorzelec
August 28/29, 2020
Directed by Ute Feudel
A production of Accentus Music
In coproduction with MDR/Arte
Length: 58:16
Video format: UHD
Audio format: PCM Sterreo
Picture credit: Emilian Tsubaki