Progressive Triptych 1: France

Sunday, 9th September 2012 at 15:00
Kazina Hall, National Maribor Theatre

Performers:
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti – violin
Satu Vänskä – violin
Helena Rathbone – violin
Christopher Moore - viola
Timo-Veikko Valve - cello
Dénes Várjon – piano

Program:
Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for Two Violins in G Major Op. 3 No. 1 (1733)
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), Movement V. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (Praise to the eternity of Jesus), for cello and piano (1941)
César Franck: Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano (1886)
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), Movement VIII. Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus (Praise to the immortality of Jesus), for violin and piano (1941)
Maurice Ravel / arr. R. Tognetti: String Quartet in F Major (1903)

 

What is it that makes French music so unique? This question is at the core of the following concert.

From the virtuoso and the co-founder of the French violin school Jean-Marie Leclair to the no less elegant and brilliant style of French composers through later centuries and a hand-full of exquisite compositions that at concert halls belong to the most frequently played pieces of chamber music.

Let us only mention Ravel and his trends towards various music styles, like jazz, gypsy music and music from the East or Pierre Boulez, the maybe most celebrated contemporary composer (New Music) and at the same time a talented tutor and conductor.