Masterworks Concert 69 at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham on Tuesday 12th November 2019

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Masterworks Concert 69

Add to my Calendar 12-11-2019 19:30 12-11-2019 21:30 36 Masterworks Concert 69 Busoni's Second Violin Sonata dates from 1900 and is dedicated to the memory of the Czech violinist and composer Ottokar Novacek who died in that year. Modelled on Beethoven's Op 109 and including a set of variations on a Bach chorale as its finale, it looks forward to Busoni's later works. Composed while he was a prisoner of war and scored for the musicians available to him at the camp, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time is a profound, otherworldly work inspired by the Book of Relevation, which seems to touch the far edges of human experience in its breadth of expression Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Pittville Pump Room
East Approach Drive
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL52 3JE
England

Tuesday 12th November 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Ferruccio Busoni – Violin Sonata no.2, Op.36a, BV 244
Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time

Performers

Emma Lisney – violin
Joy Lisney – Violoncello
Michael Whight – clarinet
James Lisney – piano

Programme Note

Busoni's Second Violin Sonata dates from 1900 and is dedicated to the memory of the Czech violinist and composer Ottokar Novacek who died in that year. Modelled on Beethoven's Op 109 and including a set of variations on a Bach chorale as its finale, it looks forward to Busoni's later works.

Composed while he was a prisoner of war and scored for the musicians available to him at the camp, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time is a profound, otherworldly work inspired by the Book of Relevation, which seems to touch the far edges of human experience in its breadth of expression

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