AMOUREUX DE LA FRANCE
CAPUÇON — VOGLER — MORAGUÈS — MERCIER
A musical matinee of superlatives: this fabulously French program was chosen by Jan Vogler together with his high-carat musical friends from France, the violinist Renaud Capuçon, the pianist Hélène Mercier and the principal clarinetist of the Orchestre de Paris, Pascal Moraguès. Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello, dedicated to the memory of Debussy, is one of the masterpieces for these two instruments. Its is followed by Debussy’s »Première rhapsodie« for Clarinet und Piano of 1909, which was already a great succes at its premiere. The program culminates with Olivier Messiaen’s ever-moving »Quatuor pour la fin du temps« (»Quartet for the End of Time«). The composer completed it when he was an inmate at the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VIII-A in Moys, part of Görlitz, at the end of 1940 / beginning of 1941. Messiaen later wrote about its first performance: »The audience was a very diverse mix of all social classes – farm workers, laborers, intellectuals, professional soldiers, doctors and clergy. Never again has anyone listened to me with such attention and such understanding.«
RENAUD CAPUÇON VIOLIN
JAN VOGLER CELLO
PASCAL MORAGUÈS CLARINET
HÉLÈNE MERCIER PIANO
Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Claude Debussy »Première rhapsodie« for Clarinet and Piano CD 124
Olivier Messiaen Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano »Quatuor pour la fin du temps«
11 am
Palais im Großen Garten
Generously supported by the Association »Friends of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele e. V.«