Quartet for the End of Time: Chamber music by Messiaen & Penderecki at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on Thursday 3rd November 2022

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Quartet for the End of Time

Chamber music by Messiaen & Penderecki

Add to my Calendar 03-11-2022 19:30 03-11-2022 21:30 36 Quartet for the End of Time Penderecki’s 70-year composing career exemplified the arc of Polish musical modernism, and in 2012 The Guardian called him ‘arguably Poland’s greatest living composer’. He died in 2020, leaving behind an influential body of large-scale works, but also a wealth of striking and intellectual chamber music. Following a performance of two of these works, Jonathan Cross puts Penderecki’s work in context, and provides the story of the extraordinary background to Messiaen’s profoundly affecting chamber work. Both composers were moved to write music by the terrible events they lived through in the twentieth century, and Quartet for the End of Time was created when the composer was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in eastern Germany during the Second World War. This event replaces our originally planned concert Penderecki: A Retrospective, as unfortunately conductor Zvonimir Hačko is unable to perform due to illness. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
South Bank
London
SE1 8XX
England

Thursday 3rd November 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
Krzysztof Penderecki – Quartet for clarinet & string trio
Krzysztof Penderecki – Per Slava

Performers

Tim Gill – Cello

London Sinfonietta

Programme Note

Penderecki’s 70-year composing career exemplified the arc of Polish musical modernism, and in 2012 The Guardian called him ‘arguably Poland’s greatest living composer’. He died in 2020, leaving behind an influential body of large-scale works, but also a wealth of striking and intellectual chamber music.

Following a performance of two of these works, Jonathan Cross puts Penderecki’s work in context, and provides the story of the extraordinary background to Messiaen’s profoundly affecting chamber work. Both composers were moved to write music by the terrible events they lived through in the twentieth century, and Quartet for the End of Time was created when the composer was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in eastern Germany during the Second World War.

This event replaces our originally planned concert Penderecki: A Retrospective, as unfortunately conductor Zvonimir Hačko is unable to perform due to illness.

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