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Messiaen

on BBC Radio 3

In 1938, Messiaen wrote music for six ondes martenots for a son et lumiere in Paris. Two years later, imprisoned in a Silesian camp, he rescored one of its movements for cello and piano, and it became the Louange a L'Eternité de Jesus from his Quartet for the End of Time.
L'eau a son maximum de hauteur (Fetes des belles eaux)
Sextuor Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenots)
Quatuorpour la fin du temps Antony Pay (clarinet) Gyorgy Pauk (violin)
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Anne Queffelec (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sextuor Jeanne Loriod
Violin:
Gyorgy Pauk
Cello:
Ralph Kirshbaum
Piano:
Anne Queffelec

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