Messiaen \u2013 <\/strong>Quatuor pour la fin du temps<\/em><\/p>\n What a pleasure to return to a brand new collection of Spotlight Chamber Concerts, itself returning to St John\u2019s Waterloo following refurbishment (and looking out like new). Here a single work was on the programme, Messiaen\u2019s Quartet for the End of Time<\/em>, sounding ever extra a traditional of the chamber repertoire with each advantageous efficiency, of which this was definitely one. A quartet of younger musicians, clarinetist Anthony Friend (additionally presiding impresario of the collection as an entire), violinist Agata Daraskaite, cellist Peteris Sokolvskis, and pianist James Cheung supplied an eminently musicianly view of Messiaen\u2019s work that, rightly, felt no must dwell one-sidedly on circumstances of composition, leaving area for all to search out their very own standpoint. Hope, pleasure, and the thriller of God can take many varieties \u2014 and admittedly, proper now, we needs to be nicely suggested to take what we are able to.<\/p>\n The opening \u2018Liturgie de cristal\u2019, with all 4 devices rendering metre and concord immanent, hypnotised, entranced, and had one imagine. Infinitely versatile inside an iron framework, it set the scene splendidly for what was to observe, whether or not in affinity or distinction. The coming of the angel who declares the top of time within the following \u2018Vocalise\u2019 definitely supplied speedy, declamatorily apocalyptic distinction, itself adopted by the numerous faces or melodies of that angel in well-nigh hallucinatory trend. Their sweetness was each unreal and hyper-real: not in contrast to the colors of a world created anew after a storm.<\/p>\n The solo clarinet \u2018Ab\u00eeme des oiseaux\u2019, in related paradox, appeared to stretch time in order each to have all that in our world and, but, in that of the piece solely simply sufficient (becoming, given the top of time itself introduced). In Friend\u2019s efficiency, it emerged, intriguingly, as an inheritor to the cor anglais solo, past good and evil, within the third act of Tristan und Isolde<\/em>, a piece whose enraptured victims definitely included Messiaen. A shepherd music, but sweeter, even perhaps stranger, nonetheless extra mysterious, it was expertly formed in efficiency in order to not sound formed in any respect. It was spellbinding, however then so was a lot else, for example the dual reduction and intensification of the following transient \u2018Interm\u00e8de\u2019. Only after did one have pause to suppose how tough it’s to write down for clarinet, violin, cello, and no piano.<\/p>\n Cheung\u2019s piano returned, in fact, for the celebrated \u2018Louange \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9ternit\u00e9 de J\u00e9sus\u2019 with cello. Unhurried, by no means dragging, it at all times moved, seemingly based on a way of harmonic rhythm from which all else grew. It was as intense because it was big-hearted, Sokolovskis\u2019s vibrato beneficiant, but by no means extreme. The unusual unisons of \u2018Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes\u2019 glistened, gleamed, glowed, and infrequently glowered.<\/p>\n Such heat precision was felt once more, just like the rainbows of which the motion instructed, in \u2018Fouillis d\u2019arcs en-ciel, pour l\u2019Ange qui annonce la fin du temps\u2019. There was darkness too, but at all times vibrant darkness, the angel\u2019s swords of fireplace palpably current with out must underline. The remaining \u2018Louange \u00e0 l\u2019Immortalit\u00e9 de J\u00e9sus\u2019 sounded very a lot a kindred spirit to the sooner \u2018Louange\u2019, solely this time with violin and piano. Daraskaite\u2019s rich-toned, equally beneficiant enjoying contributed movingly in direction of a comfort that got here near passing all understanding.<\/p>\n Mark Berry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] United Kingdom Messiaen: Anthony Friend (clarinet), Agata Daraskaite (violin), Peteris Sokolsvskis (cello), James Cheung (piano). St John\u2019s Waterloo, London, 20.11.2022. 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United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/span> Messiaen: <\/span><\/strong>Anthony Friend (clarinet), Agata Daraskaite (violin), Peteris Sokolsvskis (cello), James Cheung (piano). St John\u2019s Waterloo, London, 20.11.2022. (MB)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Photo-21-11-2022-07-37-27-1-500x333.jpg\")