Quartet for the End of Time: Mercury Quartet at the French Institute

Por Arthur Keegan-Bole, 01 junio 2012

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Crítica hecha desde Institut français (French Institute), Londres el 29 mayo 2012

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Grisey, Talea

Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

The Mercury Quartet

Robin Green, Dirección

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Arthur Keegan-Bole

Arthur is a composer currently focusing on opera. His desire to promote contemporary music led him to set up and co-edit The Octogenarian, a light-hearted classical music review pamphlet distributed in Bristol and to curate the annual CMV series of concerts.