Quartet for the End of Time by Michael Symmons Roberts

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/46038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quartet for the End of Time Author: Michael Symmons Roberts Narrator: Michael Symmons Roberts Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins Release date: 05-13-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The story goes like this: on a freezing winter night in 1941, a new piece of chamber music was performed to a crowd of prisoners of war on a three-stringed cello, clarinet, violin and pub piano with sticky keys. It was the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du Temps. Listeners since then have been captivated by the ecstatic music and mythology of Messiaen’s masterpiece. Michael Symmons Roberts’ own lifelong fascination with the Quartet leads him on a quest to understand its enigmatic power.