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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Beths, Bylsma, Pieterson, De Leeuw


Release Date: 07/28/2010 
Label:  Philips Musica Da Camera Catalog #: 422834   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Olivier Messiaen
Performer:  Reinbert De Leeuw,  Anner Bylsma,  George Pieterson,  Vera Beths
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 0 Hours 51 Mins. 

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...The Philips group is particularly strong on teamwork. I like the attentiveness to subtleties of balance, and I dare say Messiaen himself would agree that these players do the 'dawn chorus' first movement particularly well, with the strings and piano never rising above pianissimo and providing a perfectly controlled background to the expressive modulation of the clarinet. And I find other details, too, just that much more telling on the Philips...

-- Gramophone [7/1981]

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[T]he fifth movement, Messiaen insists, should be 'ecstatic, majestic, meditative and very expressive'. This movement, the first of two 'louanges' (hymns of praise) to Jesus, is also to be played Read more 'infinitely slowly' (with a metronome mark to show just what is precisely meant by this)... [Others] don't quite achieve the calm grandeur of Messiaen's vision. To hear the effect fully realised, turn to the 1980 Philips recording with Anner Bylsma and Vera Beths.

-- Gramophone [7/2001]
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Works on This Recording

1. Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messiaen
Performer:  Reinbert De Leeuw (Piano), Anner Bylsma (Cello), George Pieterson (Clarinet),
Vera Beths (Violin)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1940; Silesia, Poland 
 Length: 51 Minutes 58 Secs. 

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