Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”

Sunday June 13: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 21-38)

End of Time

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano

Jörg Widmann, Clarinet; Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello; Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

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Early Music With Sara Schneider (EMN 20-51)

The Art of Sequentia

Sequentia was founded by Benjamin Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton, and the ensemble has now been a force in the medieval music world for over forty years. We’ll dive into their extensive discography and hear selections from Dante & the Troubadours, Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper, Aquitania, and their recordings of the complete works of Hildegard von Bingen. All selections by Sequentia.

Anon.: Lux refulgent.  Orienti oriens.  Congaudet hodie.  Resonemus hoc natali.  Instrumental piece.  
Anon.:  Ad superni regis decus.

Hildegard of Bingen:  O tu suavissima Virga.  Guiraut de Bornelh: Non posc sofrir c’a la dolor.
Folquet de Marseilla: Instrumental piece.
Anon.: Maria, virgo virginum.  Audi, pontus; audi, tellus.  The Song of Fire and Ice.