COMPOSERS: Messiaen
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
ALBUM TITLE: Messiaen
WORKS: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
PERFORMER: Ensemble Walter Boeykens
CATALOGUE NO: HMA 1951348
Once a winner in
Radio 3’s Building
a Library feature,
this performance of
Messiaen’s prisoncamp
meditation on eternity,
enormously but unshowily virtuosic
and very well balanced, remains
highly recommendable.