Tashi - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of the - Japan CDCredits: Tashi Description: This is the first release from the "Sony Classical Masterpieces Collection 1000", featuring "Quartet for the End of the World", composed by the 20th century French composer Messiaen in a prison camp during World War II and first performed in the same camp. This is the first recording of "Tassi", a group formed in 1973 by Peter Zelkin and other musicians to perform masterpieces of contemporary music, and one of the pieces