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Quartet For The End Of Time
2018-10-25

Quartet For The End Of Time

By Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)

25 October 2018

Odeion

19:30

“THE IDEA OF THE END OF TIME AS THE END OF PAST AND FUTURE AND THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY”

Anmari van der Westhuizen and Samson Diamond (members of the renowned Odeion String Quartet), will join with the award-winning soloists Grethe Nöthling and Danrè Strydom to perform one of the 20th century’s most compelling chamber music works, Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. These musicians need no introduction to Bloemfontein audiences.

Composed while he was a prisoner of war, Messiaen's Quartet has continually wowed audiences since its creation. The oppressive conditions within which the work was conceived - set against the backdrop of wartime conditions in Nazi Germany - contribute to the work’s inner narrative. In this unsettling time of global political and social uncertainty, we aim to reframe this work from the past in order to contemplate the present. Music woven together with other art forms elicit and explain a range of emotions where words often fail.

A selection of striking WWII photos will be projected behind the musicians - reflecting the theme and history of the composition.

About the composition
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 92)
Quatour pour le fin du temps (1940 - 41)

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time was written in perhaps the most incongruous spot any great score has been composed in: an unheated barrack in Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp, during the second winter of World War 2. Messiaen wrote this mystical quartet for the instruments available in the camp (clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) in a setting that is arguably among the least conducive for creative work.

The quartet is Messiaen's musical depiction of and rumination on Revelation 10:1-7, which the composer included as a heading to the score:

“I saw a mighty angel descending from heaven, clad in mist, having around his head a rainbow. His face was like the sun, his feet like pillars of fire. He placed his right foot on the sea, his left on the earth, and standing thus on the sea and the earth, he lifted his hand toward heaven and swore by Him who liveth forever and ever, saying: "There shall be time no longer, but at the day of the trumpet of the seventh angel the mystery of God shall be consummated."

ADMISSION

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above-mentioned discount.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Andrey Baranov Violin Recital

Description: Andrey Baranov Tags: Andrey Baranovwith Maria Baranov (piano)

11 March 2017

Odeion

19:30

 

Andrey Baranov is winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2012. He is also a winner of Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau International Violin Competitions, and a prizewinner of more than twenty other international competitions including Indianapolis, Seoul, Sendai, Liana Isakadze, David Oistrakh and Paganini (Moscow). 

 

He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (St. Petersburg) and Consevatoire de Lausanne with L. Ivaschenko, V. Ovcharek, P. Popov and Pierre Amoyal.  Since making his major debut  in 2005 at the St. Petersburg Philharmonie Hall, Andrey has performed on renowned stages throughout the world.  Several  of his performances have been broadcast worldwide - on BR Klassik, Radio Orpheus, Espace 2 (Switzerland), YLE Radio  (Finland), WFYI, WFMT Chicago (USA) and NHK Sendai (Japan). 

 

Andrey has already appeared with leading international orchestras (e.g. the Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, MusicAeterna Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic London and SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra).  He has performed alongside artists such as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, Eliso Virsaladze ennd Liana Isakadze.  

 

Maria Baranov was born in 1988 and began to play in ensemble with her brother Andrey Baranov. After garnering first prize in the All Russian Mazur Competition of ensembles, she began her performing career giving concerts in Russia, Germany, England, France, Monaco and Switzerland. Maria was recognized as a member of the "Best Duet" at the Academy of Lausanne (Switzerland), "Best Accompanist" in the Baltic Stars International Competition (St. Petersburg), and as a laureate in the Maria Yudina International Music Competition (St. Petersburg). In 2010 she became a prizewinner in the International Duo Competition which took place in Katrineholm (Sweden) with her brother Andrey Baranov (violin).  After graduating from the special music school at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (2007), she continued her studies under Professor Igor Lebedev at the same conservatory and graduated in 2012. From 2010 until 2015 Maria studied at the  Conservatory of Lausanne (Switzerland) where she received two master’s degrees under Professors Marc Pantillon and Christian Favre.

 

PROGRAMME:

Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata g-moll "Devil's Trill", Op. 1, No. 4

Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 (Meditation, Scherzo, Melody); Valse-Scherzo Op. 34

Niccolò Paganini: La Campanella, Op. 7

Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 4, Op. 27

Ernest Chausson:  Poème, Op. 25 

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane (1924)

 

ADMISSION

R130 (adults)

*R90 (pensioners)

*R70 (UFS staff)

*R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.

 

ENQUIRIES     

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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