Kyung Wha Chung plays Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Kyung-Wha Chung plays the 8th Mov. of Messiaen quartet for the End of Time (for piano, violin, cello and clarinet). Recorded live in New York in 1984.

Since Kyung-Wha Chung mainly recorded romantic and early 20th century works, people tend think her repertoires are limited. Bur if one follows the documents of her concerts and recitals, it reveals full range of repertoires from Baroque to contemporary. This performance of Messiaen would be a good example of her 'unusual' repertoire and capability.

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[nacht22]

wait a minute, she is not playing

[twofinedays]

as I repeat the video and the music are two different stuff. There's no video documenting the performance of Messiaen, as far as I know, so I just used other video clip to make this 'music video'.

[gingeroliver]

The sadness...the emotion...

It touches me.

[BlueCougar]

That was't a "concentration camp" Messiaen was in, it was a POW camp. Ii wasn't itended for the "Extermination" of Jews (not my words, mind you), but for "keeping" enemy (french) soldiers. Messiaen wrote it for the instrumentalists awailable there. The cello had one string missing, which Messiaen had to take into account...

[geridg]

this is the most mind blowing slow movement of any chamber work I know of. Incredibly beautiful, sad, erie, meditative. And, to think Messiaen wrote this while in a German prisoner of war camp during WWII, and performed it there to his fellow prisoners. I would have collapsed in tears. Masterful. Thks for the post twofinedays!

[samfischkopf]

@Bulacanos talking about hitler underneath a song composed in auschwitz? ;) what's so wrong?

[Bulacanos]

@gallipoli2009 Wait wait wait....

There's this music, and you guys are talking about Hitler? Way to go down Godwin's Law. This discussion is about as fucking annoying as the goddamn coughers in this vid.

[gallipoli2009]

but they did not know that. Just because a madman wanted to take over the world......it is still my favorite piece of music. It is full of hope, humanity and has something deep to say about life.....and there has got to be something in that?

[gallipoli2009]

What does it matter? He once said "that nothing is impossible, and never give up" I don't know much about it, but that must say something and, in all reality, that is all that counts. He was a genius of the highest magnitude......

[rascalrascal]

This doesn't bother me. It's a great effect here

[Caramellatta]

This is not the piece she's performing in the video.

[ernestomiguel]

wanna cry... this makes me feel .. i dunno... :(