07. Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 08. Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus Part 2 of 2. "The “Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps”, opus 48, is performed by Oganes Girunyan, violin, Stanislav Yankovsky, clarinet, Stanislav Ovchinnikov, cello and Dina Novikova, piano.. Quotations are translated from Messiaen's Preface to the score. • Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (V. "Eulogy to the eternity of Jesus", for cello and piano.) Jesus is considered here as the Word. A broad phrase, "infinitely slow", on the cello, magnifies with love and reverence the eternity of the Word, powerful and gentle, "whose time never runs out". The melody stretches majestically into a kind of gentle, regal distance. "In the beginning was the Word, and Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1 (KJV)) The music is arranged from an earlier, unpublished piece, "Fêtes des belles eaux". The tempo marking is infiniment lent (literally "infinitely slowly"). An excerpt from Movement VI ("Danse de la fureur ..."), which is played by all four instruments in unison. It shows Messiaen's rhythmic technique, in which the underlying quavers (eighth notes) are alternately diminished to semiquavers (sixteenth notes) or augmented to dotted quavers. • Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes (VI. "Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets", for the full quartet.) Rhythmically, the most characteristic piece of the series. The four instruments in unison imitate gongs and trumpets (the first six trumpets of the Apocalypse followed by various disasters, the trumpet of the seventh angel announcing consummation of the mystery of God) Use of added values, of augmented or diminished rhythms, of non-retrogradable rhythms. Music of stone, formidable granite sound; irresistible movement of steel, huge blocks of purple rage, icy drunkenness. Hear especially all the terrible fortissimo of the augmentation of the theme and changes of register of its d...