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Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė

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Justas Šervenikas

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Vytautas Giedraitis

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Rasa Vosyliute

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Kaunas State Philharmonic

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

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Lithuania

Quatuor pour la fin du temps Messiaen

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Quartet for the End of Time

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One of the pieces most often heard on the world's chamber music stages, creating an extraordinary aura of spirituality and emotionality, strengthening the hope and faith of humanity with its religious content - this is how French composer Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" is described.

The piece was created in the Giorlico (Silesia) prisoner of war camp, where the composer was imprisoned in 1940-1941. It was written for three friends who were imprisoned together, as well as professional musicians - Etienne Pasquier (cello), Jean Le Boulaire (violin) and Henri Akoka (clarinet) and premiered in 1941. January 15 The piano part was performed by O. Messiaen himself.
The composer created with the help of the guard Karl Albert Brüll, who appreciated the music, who, impressed by O. Messiaen's talent, provided him with writing tools and gave him an undisturbed space.

The author wrote about the content and structure of the quartet: "The musical language of the work is essentially immaterial, spiritual, Catholic. The harmony, which realizes a certain universality of sound by means of melody and harmony, brings the listener closer to eternity in space and infinity. Unusual rhythms that are not bound by any norms help a lot to distance everything that is mundane. (But it's all but attempts and rambles when you consider the crushing majesty of the subject!) Quartet in eight movements. Why? Seven is a great number, the six-day creation sanctified by the divine sabbath; the seventh, the day of rest, lasts until eternity and becomes the eighth, a day of perfect light, undisturbed peace."

English

Vienas dažniausiai pasaulio kamerinės muzikos scenose skambančių kūrinių, sukuriantis nepaprastą dvasingumo ir emocingumo aurą, savo religiniu turiniu stiprinantis žmonijos viltį ir tikėjimą – taip apibūdinamas prancūzų kompozitoriaus Olivier Messiaeno „Kvartetas laiko pabaigai“.

Kūrinys sukurtas Giorlico (Silezijoje) karo belaisvių stovykloje, kurioje kompozitorius buvo kalinamas 1940–1941 metais. Jis parašytas trims kartu kalėjusiems draugams, taip pat profesionaliems muzikantams – Etienne‘ui Pasquier (violončelė), Jeanui Le Boulaire (smuikas) ir Henri Akokai (klarnetas), kurio premjera įvyko 1941 m. sausio 15 d. Fortepijono partiją atliko pats O. Messiaenas.
Kompozitorius kūrė talkinant muziką vertinusiam sargybiniui Karlui Albertui Brülliui, kuris, sužavėtas O. Messiaeno talento, aprūpino jį rašymo priemonėmis ir suteikė netrukdomą erdvę.

Apie kvarteto turinį ir sandarą autorius rašė: „Kūrinio muzikinė kalba iš esmės nemateriali, sudvasinta, katalikiška. Melodikos ir harmonijos priemonėmis realizuojančios tam tikrą garso visuotinumą dermės čia priartina klausytoją prie amžinybės erdvėje ir begalybėje. Neįprasti, jokių normų nesaistomi ritmai labai padeda atitolinti visa, kas žemiška. (Tačiau viskas tėra mėginimai ir sapaliojimai, kai pagalvoji apie triuškinantį temos didingumą!) Kvartetas aštuonių dalių. Kodėl? Septyni – puikus skaičius, šešias dienas trukusį kūrimą pašventino dieviškas sabbat; septinta, poilsio diena, trunka iki amžinybės ir tampa aštuntąja – tobulos šviesos, nesudrumsčiamos ramybės diena.“

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Quartet for the End of Time by Messiaen, From (2023/2023)

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