Quartet: Pour la Fin du Temps Liturgie de cristal; Vocalise, pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du Temps; Abtme des oiseaux; Intermède; Louange a l"éternité de Jesus; Danse de la furour, pour les sept trompettes; Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du Temps; Louange à l'immortalité de Jesus played by the Rubbra-Gruenberg-Pleeth Trio:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
William Pleeth (cello)
Edmund Rubbra (piano)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Olivier Messiaen , one of the most prominent and controversial figures in French music of recent years, has composed a large number of works, many of which derive their inspiration from religious sources. His Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps was written in 1940-41 while the composer was a prisoner-of-war at Gorlitz, Silesia. The work is inscribed: ' En hommage a I'Ange de I'Apocalypse, qui lève la main vers le eel en disant " II n'y aura plus de Temps." ' It was performed at the twentieth festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, held in London in 1946. Harold Rutland