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Memory Day, The time of the end in Messiaen's music

2021-01-26T16:22:36.717Z


Streaming Quatuor in captivity on January 26 (ANSA) Four musicians, detained in the German concentration camp of Görlitz, in Lower Silesia, on January 15, 1941 performed for the first time a composition destined to become one of the chamber music masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Quatuor pour la fin du Temps was signed by the pianist Olivier Messiaen, imprisoned together with the other three companions, the violinist Jean Le Boulaire, the


Four musicians, detained in the German concentration camp of Görlitz, in Lower Silesia, on January 15, 1941 performed for the first time a composition destined to become one of the chamber music masterpieces of the twentieth century.

The Quatuor pour la fin du Temps was signed by the pianist Olivier Messiaen, imprisoned together with the other three companions, the violinist Jean Le Boulaire, the cellist Etienne Pasquier and the clarinetist Henri Akoka.

That musical page full of meanings composed in a few months is proposed by the Roman Philharmonic in collaboration with ANSA as part of the

ANSA

project

for Culture

,

on January 26

in the concert entitled 'The time of the end, four lives in the Görlitz apocalypse '', among the events for the Memorial Day.


    It will be streamed on the Academy's Facebook page and YouTube channel, on Ansa.it and on the agency's social channels.

On stage in the Sala Casella at 9 pm

an exceptional quartet with the artistic director of the Roman Philharmonic Andrea Lucchesini on the piano, Marco Rizzi on the violin, Gabriele Mirabassi on the clarinet, Mario Brunello on the cello.


    The Quatuor is performed entirely in the original version.

Between one and the other of the eight sections, the narrative voice of Guido Barbieri - music critic, playwright, voice of Radio3 - tells the story of the four inmates musicians, performers of the Quatuor premiere and reconstructs their lives before, during and after that historical execution;

four different existences that contain hopes, oblivions, repentances, disappointments and that constitute the faithful mirror of the historical time, tragic and fraught with conflicts, in which they took place.


    "The result - says Barbieri - is a reflection on time: on what a pivotal work of art of the twentieth century such as Messiaen's Quatuor has sown, has sprouted and still continues to harvest. A 'contemporary apocalypse' which, like that narrated by the New Testament does not at all mark the end of time, but, always and in any case, the utopia of a new beginning ".

The concert is part of the review "Chamber music from baroque to contemporary" made with the contribution of the Lazio Region.


Source: ansa

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