Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time & Kurt Rohde: one wing

The provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) offers Olivier Messiaen’s seminal chamber work, Quartet for the End of Time. Written during the composer’s confinement in World War II, he maintained hope, expressing, “The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite … our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs.” LCCE co-founder and prize-winning composer Kurt Rohde echoes this sentiment in his Messiaen-inspired one wing for violin and piano.

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble artists
Jerome Simas clarinet
Anna Presler violin 
Tanya Tomkins cello
Eric Zivian piano

Release date: March 19, 2021