Faust, Queyras, Widmann & Aimard

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Image courtesy of Palau de la Musica

Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jörg Widmann and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, virtuosic on their respective instruments and creating inspiration for the younger generations, feature in one of chamber music’s most important events with a performance of the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen.

This inauguration of avant-garde music occurred in a Görlitz prison with the premiere of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in front of a few hundred inmates who, like him, had been held by the Nazi regime. The work was composed for an unusual quartet combination—clarinet, violin, cello and piano—under the protection of a regime official, who provided the wherewithal and the space, in addition to the necessary concentration and time for Messiaen to devote himself fully to the work. Once the quartet was finished, he wrote in the score the inscription "there shall be no more time," a phrase that would extend over all his musical compositions.

Program

A. BERG: Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 5

M. RAVEL:  Sonata for Violin and Cello

J. WIDMANN: Fantasie for Solo Clarinet

E. CARTER: Epigrams for violin, cello and piano

O. MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time

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