Work: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Alina Ibragimova and friends join forces at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in two powerful chamber works composed at the height of the Second World War. 

A thrilling performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time by members of the London Sinfonietta follows two rarely heard chamber works by Krzysztof Penderecki.

Ullmann's one act opera, written in the concentration camp at Terezin, receives a powerful performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.