Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen played by the Waterperry Festival Quartet with a film by Joseph Winters
The most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany. The composer was Olivier Messiaen, the work “Quartet for the End of Time.” Messiaen wrote most of it after being captured as a French soldier during the German invasion of 1940.
In two intimate indoor performances for 20 people, we share this mesmerising work with a newly-commissioned film exploring time, space and hope.
This unique, standalone performance within our programme is priced at £20.
