Messiaen Roundtable: Leading Messiaen scholar Professor Christopher Dingle (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) joins musicians from Ensemble 360 for this roundtable discussion exploring one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century: Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Programme to include:
Antonin Dvořák, arr. Matthews: Love Songs
Claude Debussy: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Malllarmé
Modeste Mussorgsky: The Nursery (selection)
Claude Debussy: Quartet in G minor, op. 10
Walter Rabl: Clarinet Quartet in E flat major, op. 1
Walter Rabl: Clarinet Quartet in E flat major, op. 1, 1st movement
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time – movements 4 (Intermède) and 5 (Luange)
Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles, op. 23 – 3 of the 5
Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio, 1st mov
Interval
Piers Hellawell: The Rising of Sirius
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2, allegretto
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, excerpts from mov 6 Danse de la furer, pour les sept trompettes and mov 7 Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps (violin solo)
with RWCMD student harp and percussion students.
Pre-concert Berio Sequenza performance concert in the foyer:
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III
Luciano Berio: Sequenza IX
Luciano Berio: Sequenza IV
Concert:
Luciano Berio: Quattro Canzoni Populari
Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale
Maurice Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Interval
Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli for Solo Flute
Manuel De Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas
Luciano Berio: Folk Songs
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Edwin York Bowen: Phantasie, op. 54
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
Interval
Huw Watkins: Speak Seven Seas
Josef Holbrooke: Nocturne, op. 57, no. 1, Fairyland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major, K. 498, Kegelstatt
Judith Weir: Piano Trio no. 1
Piers Hellawell: The Rising of Sirius
Interval
Josef Holbrooke: Eilean Shona op.74
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, op. 66
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
