Oliver Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) (1940)
. OK, I promised to listen to this again post-hangover so here we go (not that it's taken this long to get rid of the hangover).
I really enjoyed this second time round. As I often find with more tonally challenging music I found the slower movements easier at first. I guess it's down to being able to hear the harmonies unfold rather than being hit with them all in one go, as you often are in the faster sections.
My favourite track at this point is 5 - Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus - but there's clearly plenty in the work as a whole that will unfold as my ears get used to it and hear past the 'easier' bits.
Glad I came back to it. There will be a new disc later today
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