Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
by Luben Yordanoff / Albert Tetard / Claude Desurmont / Daniel Barenboim
Year: 1979
Release date: 1979-00-00
Overall rank: 8,686th
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| ! | 12/26/2025 14:12 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,469 | 70/100 |
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| ! | 04/14/2024 08:22 |  ScrumpyArbuckle | 1,131 | 78/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2024 19:29 |  craola | 4,439 | 78/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2023 16:04 |  EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
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jwammo12 04/02/2016 19:45 | #163171
I feel like this is to classical chamber music what Bitches Brew is to Jazz.
Emotional, moving and brilliant. Highly recommended!
SingingPeasant96 02/28/2014 12:38 | #104803 | TOP COMMENT
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I tried to review this and failed to describe it in human language.
god my favorite recording of this just keeps changing. here's my current favorite (likely to change again):
http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=42846
EDIT: ok this is my favorite again
Yeah actually disregard my initial comment. Such a significant part of the appeal of this piece is the innate humanity of it, and so I'm hardly doing it any kind of justice by trying to get my enjoyment of it down to a science. As SingingPeasant said, just feel it (spoiler: it feels fucking amazing)
SingingPeasant96 05/31/2013 14:23 | #77759 | TOP COMMENT
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LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
5th movement is my favourite moment, it's just orgasmic, it's suprising that just four instruments sound this magical.
/and ignore dat dividesbyzero's pretentious comment, just play it and feel it, it's best way to enjoy this piece.
This piece man, this piece. Messiaen is a convention defying genius, and Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps is his proof. This thing breaks all traditional laws of classical composition, abandoning all ideas of precise and regular metrics and structures, creating an immensely powerfully and ultimately mind bending sense of timelessness and infinite space. I have to wonder where the hell Messiaen got his ideas about song structure, because this shit is way ahead of its time. Anyway I could go on for pages with some cringe-worthy pretentious rambling, but I'll just say that this is fucking awesome and I love it. Highly recommend
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