Olivier Messiaen, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; Kurt Rohde: one wing (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Olivier Messiaen, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; Kurt Rohde: one wing (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:17 minutes | 980 MB | Genre: Classical
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The provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) comprises the “crème de la crème” of the San Francisco Bay Area’s musicians. Their motto: nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible. Presenters of all types of music including small ensemble, vocal, orchestral, multi-media and operatic, a select group comes together for this recording of Olivier Messiaen’s seminal chamber work, Quartet for the End of Time. Written during the composer’s confinement in World War II, he maintained hope, expressing, “The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite … our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs”. LCCE co-founder and prize-winning composer Kurt Rohde echoes this sentiment in his Messiaen-inspired one wing for violin and piano, heard here in its world-premiere recording.

“like all of Left Coast’s endeavors, the evening married standard repertoire and contemporary works in provocative and beguiling ways” (San Francisco Classical Voice)

Tracklist:
1. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 1. Liturgie de cristal (Crystal Liturgy) (02:42)
2. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 2. Vocalise, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps (Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of time) (04:54)
3. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 3. Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the birds) (07:23)
4. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 4. Intermède (Interval) (01:44)
5. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 5. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus (Praise to the eternity of Jesus) (08:24)
6. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 6. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes (Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets) (06:04)
7. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 7. Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’ange qui annonce la fin du temps(Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time) (07:02)
8. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – Quartet for the End of Time: 8. Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus (Praise to the immortality of Jesus) (07:16)
9. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble – one wing (12:45)

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