Quartet for the End of Time

October 12, 2025
3 pm*

Meadow Hall, Groton Hill Music Center

*Pre-Concert Discussion, 2:15 pm

Daniel Chong, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Jonathan Swensen, cello
Charles Neidich, clarinet
Roman Rabinovich, piano

Program
Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, Op. 132
Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1 in c minor, Op. 15
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

CCMS Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Chong and Jessica Bodner are joined by legendary clarinetist Charles Neidich, Naumburg Award-winning cellist Jonathan Swensen, and the brilliant and expressive pianist Roman Rabinovich for a captivating program featuring works by Schumann, Fauré, and Messiaen. The concert begins with the whimsical and imaginative world of Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen, transitions into the warmth and lyrical beauty of Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor, and culminates in Messiaen’s profound and transcendent masterpiece, Quartet for the End of Time.