| Music For The End Of Time | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
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Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is a work like no other. Despite its conception in a German POW camp in Silesia, where Messiaen was being held prisoner, the Quartet begins, in the composer’s words, with “the awakening of the birds” and ends with a movement depicting Jesus’ divinity.
The idea of chamber performance as an intimate conversation has never been expressed more exquisitely than in the opening of Richard Strauss’ opera Capriccio. The work’s beautiful Prelude, for string sextet, is also the subject of the opening scene, for the opera deals with the age-old dichotomy of what is of primary importance on the lyric stage - the words or the music.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
MUSIC FOR THE END OF TIME
MOZART Sinfonia Concertainte
STRAUSS Capriccio: Prelude for String Sextet
MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time
Markus Tomasi violin
Alison Rayner violin
Matthew Tomkins violin
Katie Chilmaid viola
Lauren Brigden viola
Miranda Brockman cello
Damien Eckersley double bass
David Thomas clarinet
Elyane Laussade keyboard
Venue:
Iwaki Auditorium ABC Southbank Centre
Date/Time: Sunday 30 November 2008 at 11:00 am
Bookings: www.mso.com.au or 1300 136 166
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