Schoenberg and Messiaen in Dialogue

With this concert, Kammerata Luxembourg offers a musical dialogue between Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen – two composers who, at first glance, could not be more different. One, a pioneer of atonality; the other, a sound mystic captivated by the sacred. And yet, both share the desire to push the boundaries of musical language. Composed in 1906, Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, unfolds in a single movement, capturing the tension of a fading Romanticism; Anton Webern later created an intimate transcription for quintet. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, written in captivity in 1941, juxtaposes celestial visions with profound inner contemplation, interwoven with birdsong as echoes of freedom. In the encounter of these two works emerges a resonance between radical modernity and suspended eternity.

Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (arr. Anton Webern)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Hélène Boulègue, flute
Max Mausen, clarinet
Sandrine Cantoreggi, violin
Cyprien Keiser, cello
Béatrice Rauchs, piano

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