Beautifully sad....
*sniff*
This movement gathers much of the material from the second movement and brings it back in a different form along with the angel. There is neither key nor time signature, and Messiaen marks it “decisive, vigorous, granitic, and somewhat fast” with eighth note = 176. All four instruments play in unison, and the melody is in the whole tone scale.
Messiaen: “Quartet for the End of Time”, (“Dance of Fury for the Seven Trumpets”)
Yeah, it’s tough to listen to ain’t it?