Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) (1941)

[endofthecorridor]

Am I going crazy or can I hear Radiohead at certain places in the mvt V? From 20:40 anyone?

[Rolopofo]

3 people are dumb terminals.

[humanoidismalakian]

I love this piece, but if you listen to it whilst thinking about the context in which it was written and originally performed, it just makes it all the more stunning

[blahdorkweirdo]

My god, that piano line is a nightmare. Look at all those accidentals! I can see what my Music Theory teacher meant when she said you need four REALLY good musicians to do this piece.

[merman4]

this piece is crazy..... not really a catchy tune... but then again who says it has to be. it's what the composer feels or is feeling

[johnnyxblood]

imagine what it must have been like to hear this performed for the very first time, on broken instruments, at a Nazi POW camp, in the rain...

[kairi99roxas]

SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! thanks so much!

[xnophloglas]

gorgeous, ecstatic, transcendent music.

[outwritten]

Why do Justin Bieber songs have 670 million views and this only has 10,000?

[necessarydiva]

@outwritten My guess is one has to go to school for years to understand what the hell Messiaen is talking about!

[doffdoff]

thank you so much for adding the sheet music.

[poti0909]

It is very noble-minded music!

And I appreciate.

That the sensitivity in special art has been shared, and you.

[alfo590]

This is son wonderfull...Thank you Messiaen!!

[JohnVelojet]

Thanks immensely for going to the trouble of integrating this with the score! It made for an excellent preparation for listening to a live performance.

[muslit]

an amazingly overrated piece of music - 

[ixsetf]

@muslit this isn't really that well known, no matter how much you dislike it, you can't really say it is that overrated.

[flateboo]

@muslit Can you explain why it is overrated?

[prepotatoes10]

thank you so much for uploading this! :) excellent!

[kingfisher1926]

In the fifth bar of movement VI, [the second bar displayed at 25.37] there is a rhythmical error in the piano part. The eighth note should be a semiquaver.

Do i win the prize for musical pedantry?

More importantly, thank you very much for uploading so many complete works!

[ChocolateAndCheese1]

my favorite movement comes at around 18 minutes. i used to listen to that movement frequently when i would study, meditate + many other things. great piece of music here. thanks for uploading.

[flateboo]

@ChocolateAndCheese1 Do not listen to this art when you study.

[war3gate]

so stunning.

[war3gate]

this is absolutely mind-blowing and magnificent. actually, even the word "magnificent" isn't even enough for this piece.

gah... :D

[MrBrainrusher]

Anyone else think this music should have been in The Twilight Zone?

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

I didn't understand anything...btw it is interesting.

maybe you should end with a white shading, not black one. We're going to heaven, not hell! :D :D :D

[marian444]

Wonderful ! In my favorites

[xatstilo]

I really appreciated this "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" and also I liked the informative description. Thank you!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

haven't you uploaded this previously, without sheet music? 

[musicanth]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Not as far as I know... but I did upload "Eclairs sur l'au dela..." a couple months ago.

[manduker]

Excelente obra!!