~ Hari & The Hijack Band (Joe Walsh & George Harrison) ~
This movement is for piano and cello, is marked “infinitely slow, ecstatic”, and is in a straightforward E Major. But there is no time signature. The bars are uneven, and Messiaen uses a basic pulse of sixteenth note = 44 to hold it together. The piano plays in the bass clef throughout.
I’m neither emotional nor religious, but this movement always has me going for my handkerchief.
Messiaen: “Quartet for the End of Time”, (“Praise for the Eternity of Jesus”) (cello)