Michael Symmons Roberts
Quartet for the End of Time : On Music, Grief and Birdsong...
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This is a rich, lively, profound book ROWAN WILLIAMSA personal reckoning with grief, doubt, faith and poetry set to one of the most celebrated musical works of the twentieth century, from the awardwinning poet and librettist. 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 threestringed cello, clarinet, violin and pub piano with sticky keys. It was the premiere of Olivier Messiaens Quatuor pour la fin du Temps. Listeners since then have been captivated by the ecstatic music and mythology of Messiaens masterpiece. Michael Symmons Roberts own lifelong fascination with the Quartet having chanced upon it in a record shop in his late teens and fallen in love with its title leads him on a quest to understand its enigmatic power. His fascination at times frustration with Messiaens vision opens into an exploration of grief, of personal faith and doubt, of the end of time and what may lie beyond it. Interwoven with poetry and wit, this book is an expansive evocation of music, loss, hope and time, seen through the lens of the Quartets technicolour, apocalyptic vision.Quartet for the End of Time is a moving, intimate and unforgettable book, attentive to ways of listening in our noisy world to birdsong, music, poems and radio silence, and to the call and response that we may find.A properly engrossing exploration of music, place, religion and what it is to be human SARAH TARLOW, author of...
Binding: Hardback;256 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: AVGC6; Weight: 530 g; Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 30
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This is a rich, lively, profound book ROWAN WILLIAMSA personal reckoning with grief, doubt, faith and poetry set to one of the most celebrated musical works of the twentieth century, from the awardwinning poet and librettist. 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 threestringed cello, clarinet, violin and pub piano with sticky keys. It was the premiere of Olivier Messiaens Quatuor pour la fin du Temps. Listeners since then have been captivated by the ecstatic music and mythology of Messiaens masterpiece. Michael Symmons Roberts own lifelong fascination with the Quartet having chanced upon it in a record shop in his late teens and fallen in love with its title leads him on a quest to understand its enigmatic power. His fascination at times frustration with Messiaens vision opens into an exploration of grief, of personal faith and doubt, of the end of time and what may lie beyond it. Interwoven with poetry and wit, this book is an expansive evocation of music, loss, hope and time, seen through the lens of the Quartets technicolour, apocalyptic vision.Quartet for the End of Time is a moving, intimate and unforgettable book, attentive to ways of listening in our noisy world to birdsong, music, poems and radio silence, and to the call and response that we may find.A properly engrossing exploration of music, place, religion and what it is to be human SARAH TARLOW, author of...
Binding: Hardback;256 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: AVGC6; Weight: 530 g; Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 30
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
Click here to view our full Returns Policy.
Michael Symmons Roberts
Quartet for the End of Time : On Music, Grief and Birdsong...
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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