Trusted Shops badge
  • © Photo: Mladen Pikulic
    © Photo: Mladen Pikulic
  • Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Recital Hall, © Photo: Hans Roggen
    Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Recital Hall, © Photo: Hans Roggen

Close‐Up: War and Peace — Messiaen and Weinberg

О событии

Descend into the turmoil of war with the musicians of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as they play Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' and Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Piano Quintet.

Composed and premiered while Messiaen was interned in a prisoner of war camp, the Quartet combines the beauty of the natural world, and the consolation of religious faith in a breathtaking expression of hope for humanity. Mieczyslaw Weinberg, by contrast, having fled east from Nazism into the bosom of the Soviet state, was perhaps less hopeful for humanity. An icy strain of knowledge of the worst of humankind permeates throughout, adding a questioning, uneasy edge to even outwardly patriotic, folk‐inspired passages.

Gift card