Like the end of time, the prisoner-of-war camp in Görlitz must have appeared to the French inmates. In winter 1941 Olivier Messiaen wrote the Quatuor pour la fin du temps for clarinet, violin, cello and piano for four prisoners and their broken instruments. Members of the SOB interpret one of the most central chamber music works of the 20th century, accompanied by a reading by Alain Claude Sulzer.