Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
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Brand: SHAHAM,GIL/WANG,JIComposer: Olivier Messiaen
Performer: Myung-Whun Chung
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-01-09
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- I. Liturgie De Cristal
- II. Vocalise, Pour L'Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps
- III. Abime Des Oiseaux
- IV. Intermede
- V. Louange A L'Eternite De Jesus
- VI. Danse De La Fureur
- VII. Fouillis D'arcs-en-ciel, Pour I'Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps
- VIII. Louange A L'lmmortalite De Jesus
Music reviews of Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Music Review: Heavy breathing
Rating: 2 Stars
I bought this CD after reading many reviews proclaiming it a definitive recording of Messiaen's quartet. However, after listening to the first few movements I found myself so distracted by the heavy breathing that punctuates nearly every violin phrase played that the music itself became difficult to concentrate on.
Having since purchased a couple more recordings featuring him, I've discovered that this breathiness is a part of Gil Shaham's style that comes to the fore on smaller ensemble recordings -- sort of like pianist Glenn Gould's humming. Evidently most reviewers here weren't distracted enough by it to comment, but I found it intrusive enough during close listening to mar the listening experience. As a result, I rarely listen to this recording and usually go back to the 1975 Tashi recording on RCA.
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No Description Available.Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-JAN-2001
Despite being composed in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, Messiaen's masterpiece teems with music of ethereal beauty. Inspired by the Book of Revelations, it features many of his unique stylistic fingerprints--unison homophonic passages, birdcalls, and surprising rhythmic displacements among them. Even with only four instruments (a choice dictated by those available in the camp), Messiaen achieves striking coloristic effects. Virtually any performance by four musicians capable of meeting the piece's technical and stylistic demands will make a telling effect, and this one certainly does. It's one of the slower available performances, primarily because fast movements tend to be faster and slower ones slower than such rivals as the classic Tashi reading on RCA and the vibrant Russian one led by Oleg Kagan on Live Classics. At times, slow movements lack the note-to-note tension that would make them even more powerful, but Messiaen fans will want to hear Shaham, Chung, & Co. in his greatest chamber work. --Dan Davis
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