Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
by Luben Yordanoff / Albert Tetard / Claude Desurmont / Daniel Barenboim
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: 8,794th
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Year: 1979
Release date: 1979-00-00
Overall rank: 8,794th
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Top albums of 1979 (126th)
Top albums of of the 1970s (1,272nd)
Best albums of all time (8,794th)
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Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,794th | 1970s rank: 1,272nd | 1979 rank: 126th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  craola | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 26/40 | 36 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1979 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2025 |  genialbibi | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 53/100 | 43 |
| 2025 |  KitchenSink | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 4/100 | 19 |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 1/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Leonard | Classical Album of the Year | 41/94 | - |
| 2023 |  Xxnu99etxX | Modern Classical | 76/100 | - |
| 2022 | Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 8/100 | 19 |
| 2022 |  SuedeSwede | More Faves: 101-200 | 72/97 | - |
| 2022 | craola | Top 20 Music Albums of 1978 | 3/20 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 21 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 141 | |||
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| ! | 03/02/2025 23:05 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 04/14/2024 08:22 |  ScrumpyArbuckle | 1,131 | 78/100 |
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I tried to review this and failed to describe it in human language.
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dividesbyzero 03/23/2013 00:11 | #69580 | TOP COMMENT
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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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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)
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dividesbyzero 06/25/2013 20:57 | #79842 | TOP COMMENT
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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
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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.
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