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“... like all of Left Coast’s endeavors, the evening married standard repertoire and contemporary works in provocative and beguiling ways.” – San Francisco Classical Voice Left Coast is proud to share their live recording of Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" and Kurt Rohde's "one wing" from February 2020's sold out concerts at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Berkeley Hillside Club. Written during the composer’s confinement in World War II, Messiaen maintained hope, expressing, “The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite … our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs.” LCCE co-founder and prize-winning composer Kurt Rohde echoes this sentiment in his Messiaen-inspired "one wing" for violin and piano, heard here in its world-premiere recording. The provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) comprises the crème de la crème of the San Francisco Bay Area’s musicians. Their motto: nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible. Presenters of all types of music including small ensemble, vocal, orchestral, multi-media and operatic, a select group comes together for this recording of Olivier Messiaen’s seminal chamber work, "Quartet for the End of Time".