Hebrides Ensemble perform Quartet for the End of Time
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.........The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation inspired Quartet for the End of Time, a timeless masterpiece written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.
This dramatic and transcendent piece written while Messiaen was incarcerated in a prisoner-of-war camp is programmed alongside music drawing on the same instrumental resources but producing very different results.