Quartet for the End of Time

Mark Simpson – Clarinet
Thomas Kemp – Violin
Richard Harwood – Cello
Sophia Rahman – Piano

Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time

Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time was written and premiered in a concentration camp.  This performance is in the atmospheric surroundings of All Saint’s Tudelely with its Marc Chagall windows commissioned by the D’Avigdor- Goldsmid family as a memorial to their daughter who died in a sailing accident.  James Pearson opens the concert with an improvisation on these special surroundings.