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BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
FOUNDATIONS
Mathias Kjøller clarinet Chloe Hanslip violin Andreas Brantelid cello Marianna Shirinyan piano
CLAUDE DEBUSSY ( 1862 – 1918 ) Première Rhapsodie MAURICE RAVEL ( 1875 – 1937 ) Piano Trio in A minor OLIVIER MESSIAEN ( 1908 – 1992 ) Quartet for the End of Time
Kjøller , Brantelid , Shirinyan & Hanslip
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HÅKONSHALLEN
DATE / TIME Monday 29 May at 20:30
DURATION 1:55 including interval
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Introduction ( in Norwegian ) at 18:55
TICKET Standard : 400 Under 30 : 150 BT Fordel : 305
Festival Card : 30 % discount
A multinational quartet performs French music written in wartime .
‘ Debussy , Ravel and Messiaen bring the wonderful colours of their music to life in completely different ways , but they all found inspiration in nature and have common impressionistic textures in their music ,’ Danish clarinettist Mathias Kjøller explains , on the choice of repertoire .
Ravel and Messiaen wrote against a backdrop of war . Ravel , on completing his Piano Trio , enlisted to fight in World War I . The subsequent outbreak of World War II saw Messiaen enlisting for the same French Army . Quartet for the End of Time was written while Messiaen was a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp . The unusual combination of piano , clarinet , violin and cello reflects the players available to him .
On 15 January 1941 Messiaen premiered the piece with three fellow prisoners for an audience of guards , other prisoners and camp hospital patients . He later said of its reception : ‘ Never before have I been listened to with such attention and understanding .’
Supported by the Oticon Foundation
Sponsored by DNV GL
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