Name: Kvartett För Tidens Ände
Start: 2024-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grünewaldsalen

Organization

Stockholm Concert House

Instrumentalist

Peter Friis Johansson

Piano

Emma Agnas de Frumerie

Violin

Kajsa William- Olsson

Cello

Johan Fransén

Clarinet

Singer

Konserthuset Stockholm

Kvartett För Tidens Ände

Stockholm

Sweden

Grünewaldsalen

Kvartett För Tidens Ände: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Messiaen

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Quartet for the End of Time

Piano Trio in D minor Op. 11

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Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

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Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

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Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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At this concert, music is interspersed with reading. Jan Eliasson, diplomat and former president of the UN General Assembly, reads from Dag Hammarskjöld's book Road signs. It takes place between the movements in both works in the program. Dag Hammarskjöld was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961, in what was believed to be a plane crash. A manuscript titled Road Marks was found in the residence in New York. Hammarskjöld called the notes "a kind of 'white book' concerning my negotiations with myself – and God". He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously in 1961.

We initially hear music by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. The Passionate Piano Trio from 1847 was a birthday present for her sister. Fanny died a few months later of a stroke and the work was not published until several years later. The music came about at a time of great political and economic unrest in Europe, with revolutions following in 1848. 

When World War II broke out, the French composer Olivier Messiaen was placed in the army as a medic, but was captured in 1940 by German troops and placed in a prison camp. Some of the fellow prisoners were musicians: a clarinetist, a violinist and a cellist. Messiaen himself played the piano. He composed the Quator pour la fin de temps, Quartet for the End of Time, which was premiered in the camp in front of the deeply affected fellow prisoners – and the camp guards. It is spiritual, deeply poetic and doom-laden music - but also hopeful.

English

Vid den här konserten varvas musik med läsning. Jan Eliasson, diplomat och före detta ordförande för FN:s generalförsamling, läser ur Dag Hammarskjölds bok Vägmärken. Det sker mellan satserna i båda verken i programmet. Dag Hammarskjöld var FN:s generalsekreterare från 1953 fram till sin död 1961, i vad som antogs vara en flygplansolycka. Man fann i bostaden i New York ett manuskript med titeln Vägmärken. Hammarskjöld kallade anteckningarna för ”en sorts ’vitbok’ rörande mina förhandlingar med mig själv – och Gud”. Han tilldelades Nobels fredspris postumt 1961.

Vi hör inledningsvis musik av Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. Den passionerade pianotrion från 1847 var en födelsedagspresent till hennes syster. Fanny dog några månader senare av en stroke och verket publicerades först flera år efteråt. Musiken kom till vid en tid då det rådde stor politisk och ekonomisk oro i Europa, med revolutioner som följde 1848. 

När andra världskriget bröt ut placerades den franske tonsättaren Olivier Messiaen i armén som sjukvårdare, men tillfångatogs 1940 av tyska trupper och placerades i ett fångläger. Några av medfångarna var musiker: en klarinettist, en violinist och en cellist. Själv spelade Messiaen piano. Han komponerade Quator pour la fin de temps, Kvartett för tidens ände, som uruppfördes i lägret inför de djupt gripna medfångarna – och lägervakterna. Det är andlig, djupt poetisk och ödesmättad musik – men också hoppfull.

svenska

Kvartett För Tidens Ände by Messiaen, Mendelssohn, F., From (2024/2024), Grünewaldsalen, Stockholm, Sweden

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