Afternoon Classical playlist for 10/11/2012

Program: 
Afternoon Classical
  • W.A. Mozart
-
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K 622
from
  • Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, with Jack Brymer, clarinet
(
  • Philips
)
  • Olivier Messiaen
-
Quartet for the End of Time
from
  • Michel Beroff, piano; Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Erich Gruenberg, violin; and William Pleeth, cello
(
  • Angel
)
Hope at the edge of the hereafter; two transcendental works featuring the clarinet in a prominent role. The first, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, written in 1791, the year of the composer's death. Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time followed. Messiaen penned the work in a WWII prison camp in the winter between 1940 and '41.
Department: 
Classical