Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Label: Music@Menlo LIVE
Featured Tracks: 4-11- Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messaien
Recording details:
Crumb’s cataclysmic Black Angels, a passionate anti-war statement, balances Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), a devoutly spiritual work composed in a prisoner of war camp. Two imaginative string quartet reworkings of music by J. S. Bach, including his famed The Art of Fugue, complete this collection.