Olivier Messiaen was born 98 years ago, on December 10, 1908.
The Quartet for the End of Time was written after Messiaen, then a French soldier, was captured and incarcerated in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and first performed by the composer and three fellow inmates in the unheated barracks of Stalag VIIIA on January 15, 1941, before an audience of 300 prisoners and their German guards.
Clarinette : Barnaby Robson
Violon : James Clark
Violoncelle : David Cohen
Piano : Matthew Schellhorn
Koenji Hyakkei’s music sometimes is a little like Magma, but I like it.
Secondo me il video c’entra come i cavoli a merenda, ma Koenji Hyakkei (高円寺百景) a volte, come in questo pezzo, mi piacciono parecchio.
Sono un po’ (tanto) Magma (chi si ricorda i francesi di Christian Vander?), ma la complessità, il superamento del solito schema ritornello-inciso e l’energia rendono questo brano superiore alla media.
Certo che la faccenda mi ricorda un po’ Shostakovich, quando diceva che la musica (nel suo caso) russa aveva un grande futuro dietro di sé…
Line-up
Yoshida Tatsuya – drums, vocals
Sakamoto Kengo – bass & voice
Kanazawa Miyako – keyboards & voice
Yamamoto Kyoko – vocals
Komori Keiko – reeds & voice