Festival Program
Wednesday 9 April - Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps - Opening Concert
Thursday 10 April - Birds, Colours, Trust - Seminar day
Friday 11 April - Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
Saturday 12 April - Organ recital with Mattias Wager
- Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence divine a.o.
Sunday 13 April - Catalogue d'Oiseaux a.o. - Bird Day in the Stockholm Concert Hall *
- Organ recital with Erik Boström
Monday 14 April - Groupe Jeune France and the young Messiaen
Wednesday 16 April - Turangalîla Symphony (Tristan Trilogy part I) * - Stockholm Concert Hall
Thursday 17 April - Turangalîla Symphony (Tristan Trilogy part I) * - Stockholm Concert Hall
Friday 18 April -
Visions de l'Amen*
- From Betlehem to Golgatha
Saturday 19 April -
Messiaen Complete Organ Works marathon concert *
Sunday 20 April -
Musical Church Service
- Harawi and Cinq Rechants * (Tristan Trilogy parts II and III)
* the concert will be recorded by Swedish Radio P2
Wednesday 9 April - Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
The festival opens with Messiaens arguably best known and best loved work, a true modern classic. The Quartet was composed during Messiaen's time as prisoner of war in the German prison camp Stalag VIII, and the echo of the legendary first performance in front of hundreds of fellow prisoners still resonates. This is a chamber music work that never fails to engage and fascinate audiences.
The French Embassy invites audience and artists to a pre concert drink in the Oscar II bar to celebrate the opening of the festival.
Programme: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps
Venue: Nybrokajen 11
Tid: 7.00pm (Drink from 6.00pm)
Artists: Florent Boffard (France) - piano
Karin Dornbusch - clarinet
Tobias Ringborg - violin
Nadine Pierre (France) - cello
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Thursday 10 April - Birds, Colours, Trust
An afternoon dedicated to Messiaen's artistic, scientific and humanistic heritage. Lectures about the faith, love and nature - the three main themes in Messiaen's life and works - combined with music intermezzos.
Bengt Emil Johnson och Sten Wahlström together with Carl-Axel Dominique at the piano makes an analysis of the big piano piece La fauvette des jardins, including comparision of the score with recordings of the actual bird songs.
Carl-Axel Dominique speaks about Messiaen's ability to experience intense colours connected to the music he heard, and vice versa.
Anders Ekenberg and Klaus Röhring speaks about the theological aspects of the works of Messiaen. His catholic beliefs was, according to himself,
"the most important aspect of my work, the most precious, and perhaps the only aspect I won't regret on my deathbed".
All lectures with the exception of Röhring's will be in Swedish.
Plats: St Jakobs Church,
Participants:
Carl-Axel Dominique
Bengt-Emil Johnson
Sten Wahlström
Klaus Röhring
Anders Ekenberg
Time: 2.00pm - ca 6.00pm
Friday 11 April - Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
The monumental piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Twenty contemplations on the Infant Jesus) is performed in its entirety. Twenty movements comprising everything a grand piano is capable of in terms of sonority; beautiful meditative tunes, extaticly burlesque rhythms, violently eruptive explosions, magic birdsong...
Programme:
Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
Venue: The Museum of National Antiquities , Baroque Hall
Time: 6.00pm
Artist: Oskar Ekberg - piano
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Saturday 12 April - Organ Music by Messiaen
A concert dedicated to Messiaen's main instrument, the organ.
Programme:
Venue: St Jacobs kyrka
Time: 3.00pm
Artist: Mattias Wager - organ
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Saturday 12 April - Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence divine a.o.
Small and large side by side - starting with Messiaen's works for violin and piano and ondes martenot (including two Swedish premičres!) and finishing with one of Messiaen's own favourite works in which women's chorus and string orchestra is complemented by percussion, solo piano and celeste. Above all of these, the magical soaring sound of Messiaen's favourite electronic instrument, the Ondes Martenot.
Programme:
O sacrum convivium choir
Thčme et variations (violin and piano)
Fantaisie (violin and piano) (Swedish premiere!)
Inédits (ondes martenot and piano) (Swedish premiere!)
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Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence divine
Venue: Katarina church
Time: 8.00pm
Artists: ("Trois Petites...")
Hans Vainikainen - conductor
Fredrik Burstedt - konsertmästare
Martin Sturfält - solo piano
Christine Ott (France) -
ondes martenot
Martin Virin - celesta
Women's chorus
String orchestra from the Royal Stockholm College of Music
Percussion ensemble
(Chamber music)
Carlos Murakami - piano
Anders Hjortvall - violin
Christine Ott( France) -
ondes martenot
Katarina Chamber Choir
Recorded by Swedish Radio P2
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Sunday 13 April - Bird Day in the Stockholm Concert Hall
Some of Swedens foremost pianists celebrate the Messiaen centenary by performing all his bird pieces for solo piano plus, as a bonus, "Le merle noir" (the Blackbird) for flute and piano. An entire day filled with music, bird song, exhibitions, café, ornithologists etc.
Programme: Olivier Messiaen's bird music for solo piano
(Catalogue d'Oiseaux,
La Fauvette des Jardins,
Petites esquisses d'Oiseaux) and
Le merle noir
Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall
Time: 1.00pm - ca. 6.00pm
(In four parts ā ca. 60 minutes each including presentations with 20 minutes interval in between)
Artists:
Anna Christensson, Love Derwinger, Carl-Axel Dominique, Oskar Ekberg, Bengt Forsberg, Anders Kilström,Mårten Landström, Roland Pöntinen,
Staffan Scheja, Kristine Scholz, Martin Sturfält, Fredrik Ullén - piano
Sharon Bezaly - flute
Bengt-Emil Johnson, Sten
Wahlström - hosts and bird experts.
Program in detail
HERE
Recorded by Swedish Radio P2
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Sunday 13 April - Organ Music by Messiaen
One of Sweden's most renowned Messiaen organists in a solo programme.
Programme:
Apparition de l´Église éternelle (1932)
Prélude
Monodie (1963)
Livre d´Orgue (1951)
Venue: Oscar church
Time: 7.30pm
Medverkande:
Erik Boström
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Monday 14 April - Groupe Jeune France and the young Messiaen
A concert with chamber music by the composers, Messiaen being one of them, who called themselves "La Jeune France". The concert is also focusing on the young Messiaen and his music, mixing his youthful exuberance with the inevitably clear direction towards a new musical landscape.
Programme:
Octandre (Edgard Varese)
Počmes pour Mi (Olivier Messiaen)
Cantéyodjayâ Olivier Messiaen)
ur Preludes (Olivier Messiaen)
ur Heptade (André Jolivet)
3 počmes de Cécile Sauvage (Daniel-Lesur)
2 počmes de Tristan Corbičre (Yves Baudrier)
Venue: FORUM
Time: 7.00pm
Artists:
Tua Åberg - soprano
Christian Engqvist - baryton
Axel Sjöstedt - trumpet
Thomas Lindberg - percussion
Asuka Nakamura - piano
Carl-Axel Dominique - piano
Bengt Berger - tablas
Instrumental ensemble from Royal College of Music conducted by
Fredrik Burstedt
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Wednesday 16 April - Turangalîla Symphony (Tristan Trilogy part I)
Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall
Time: 7.30pm
Artists:
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Alan Gilbert - conductor
Joel Fan - piano
Thursday 17 April -Turangalîla Symphony (Tristan Trilogy part I)
Venue: Stockholm Concert Hall
Time: 7.30pm
Artists:
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Alan Gilbert - conductor
Joel Fan - piano
Friday 18 April - Visions de l'Amen
Two concert grand pianos, two pianists and seven visions of the word Amen. Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen is one of the most demanding works in the piano duo repertoire. The reward is 45 minutes of powerful visions where Messiaen explores the pianos' combined sonorities to their maxium, and further still.
Programme:
Visions de l'Amen
Venue: Studio 2 - Swedish Radio
Time: 6.00pm
Artists:
Oskar Ekberg och
Martin Sturfält - piano
Friday 18 April - From Bethlehem to Golgatha - a church performance
In this spectacular performance show, Messiaen's music is mixed not just with gregorian chant, but with actors in a specially composed mystic play. Unique enormous resonance rocks by the Swiss artist Arthur Schneider double as both stage design and percussion instruments, and the performers take us on an Odyssey of the senses that have resulted in sold out houses wherever the show has been performed.
Programme: From Bethlehem to Golgatha
Venue: Stockholm Cathedral
Time: 8.00pm
Artists:
Tua Åberg - soprano
Carl-Axel Dominique - piano
Hans-Ola Ericsson - organ
Tommy Björk - percussion
Kjell-Peder Johansson - recitation
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19 April - Organ Marathon
The festival offers a real organ sensation: All of Messiaen's organ works in one concert! You are welcome to come and hear your favourite or maybe discover something new. Swedish organist Hans-Ola Ericsson have, thanks to his close contact and studies with the composer himself, emerged as one of today's foremost Messiaen interpreters, and the festival proudly presents him and his international guests.
Programme: Olivier Messiaen complete organ works
Program details can be found HERE>>>
Venue: Hedvig Eleonora Church
Time: 12.00am - ca. 12.00pm (including intervals)
Artists:
Hans-Ola Ericsson,
Elisabeth Eriksson,
Erland Hildén,
Carmen Jauch,
Han-Young Kim (Korea),
Jonas Lundblad,
Dora Petery (Hungary),
Markus Ruprecht (Germany),
Christiane Rödder,
Joao Seguardo (Portugal),
Gundega Vilcane (Latvia) - organ
Anders Ekenberg - presentation
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20 April - Musical Church Service
Service with music and theological inspiration from Messiaen.
Programme: Music by Messiaen a.o.
Venue: German Church
Time: 11.00am
Artists: Klaus Röhring a.o.
20 April - Final Concert (Tristan Trilogy parts II and III)
The festival finishes by completing Messiaen's so called Tristan Trilogy (where the Turangalîla Symphony is the first part, see above), something that has never been done in Sweden. Two works worthy of finishing the celebrations.
Programme: Harawi , Cinq Rechants
Venue: Stockholm Cathedral
Time: 3.00pm
Artists:
Annika Skoglund - soprano (Harawi)
Carl-Axel Dominique - piano (Harawi)
Gustaf Sjökvists Chamber Choir conducted by Gustaf Sjökvist (Cinq Rechants)
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