As Director:
Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen
with a new film by Joseph Winters
31 July 2021, Shipwright
Piano Bertie Baigent
Violin Gabriella Jones
Clarinet Matthew Wilsher
Cello Samuel Ng
Direction and Design Joseph Winters
The most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany. The composer was Olivier Messiaen, the work “Quartet for the End of Time.” Messiaen wrote most of it after being captured as a French soldier during the German invasion of 1940.
In two intimate indoor performances for 20 people, we share this mesmerising work with a newly-commissioned film exploring time, space and hope.
