Luben Yordanoff, Albert Tétard, Claude Desurmont & Daniel Barenboim – Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps [Stereo] (The Original Source Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Sidney Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

„Music that lulls to sleep and that sings made of new blood, of talking gestures, an unknown scent, a non-sleeping bird; music of colorful church windows, a swirl of complementary colors, a theological rainbow.“ This personal definition that Olivier Messiaen gave with these words refers to both the purely musical and extra-musical characteristics that Messiaen demands of himself and attributes to his works. It also serves as a brief summary of one of the most important works that Messiaen created in his first major creative period, the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps. Mixed and cut from the original 8-track tapes, this edition offers a breathtaking listening experience with the highest analog sound quality.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source showcases outstanding recordings from the 1970's in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios remastered and edited the original four - and eight-track tapes using technologies developed specifically for the production of the series in 100% analog quality (AAA). The tonal differences from the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, as well as less background noise, distortion and compression enable an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, copies of this series are released limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photographs and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Tracklisting:

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

LP1

Side A

1. Liturgy de cristal
2. Vocalise, pour l' Ange qui advertisement la fin du temps
3. Abome des oiseaux
4. Intermede
5. Louange à l'Eternite de Jesus

Side B

1. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trumpettes
2. Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui advertisement la fin du temps
3. Louange à l'Immortalite de Jesus

(Above description from DeutscheGrammophon.com)