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March 18, 2008
Easter Music
Music is not narrative - but occasionally the words that a composer has given to describe the piece affect one greatly
Oliver Messaien wrote the Quartet for the End of Time in a prison camp in the second world war. It has long and momentous movements for clarinet, violin, piano and cello as these were the instruments available to his professional musician co- prisoners
One movement is titled (in French)- 'The song of the angel who comes to announce the end of time'. That has a profound effect on what one hears.
You can hear it in the Church of St John the Baptist, Croydon on Easter Saturday
Posted by Perkins at March 18, 2008 12:30 PM