Triumphant Tales 2008
Reaching for the eternal, the
timeless, was the soul of this concert, Messiaen’s
Quartet for the End of Time. The ultimate triumph over adversity,
a chronicle of a sound world far beyond the horrors of the prisoner-of-war camp
in which it was created. Artist Sandy Pottinger’s series of eight paintings paraphrased
the eight movements of the Quartet. “Is the sound of blue the shape of a rhapsody?” she asks.
“Music, then, adds a dimension of colour, each sound with its own aura. I listen to the colour of the
music, I hear the shapes of the sounds, and I see the spaces between those sounds.”
Olivier Messiaen: Trois Mélodies
for soprano and piano (1931)
Olivier Messiaen: Poèms Pour Mi Book 1
for soprano and piano (1936)
Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain II
for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (1977)
Olivier Messiaen: Vocalise- étude
for soprano and piano (1935)
INTERVAL
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time violin, clarinet, cello and piano (1941)
