The Rite of Time
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Sun 22 Mar 202615:00 - 17:00Interval 15:50Grote Zaal
Program
10:30 - 18:00 / Kleine Zaal / Video installation (free walk-in)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker concept, choreography
Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy piano
Rosas production
15:00 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Alfred Schnittke Lebenslauf for piano, metronome and percussions
Franz Schubert Andante con moto from Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 100
Morton Feldman Madame Press died last week at ninety
Steve Reich Piano Phase (with dance)
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Credits
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Samson Tsoy piano
Alina Ibragimova violin
Alban Gerhardt cello
Nicolas Baldeyrou clarinet
HIIIT
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker choreography
Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti (Rosas) dance
The Ragged Music Festival concludes with a deeply affecting climax: a stellar performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Messiaen composed his deeply moving plea for peace in a German prisoner-of-war camp where he was detained in June 1940. The music of Alfred Schnittke and of Morton Feldman, master of silence, also has a relationship with death and the relentless passage of time in human life.
Messiaen’s famous quartet is a religiously inspired vision in which an angel stops time. But it is also a testament to life, expressed through imitations of birdsong and rich, warm harmonies. That warmth, and the subtle melancholy for all that makes the world beautiful, are also expressed in the wonderfully consoling Andante from Schubert’s most famous piano trio. Rosas and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker pay homage to the American minimalist Steve Reich with Piano Phase.
Video-installation / Kleine Zaal (free walk-in)
Throughout the weekend in the Kleine Zaal during the Ragged Music Festival, a video featuring and by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will be shown, in which she performs Sola, a solo based on the original dress from Violin Phase (1982) and a core vocabulary of steps, turns, and jumps, set to Franz Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor, D.940, performed by Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy.
Sat 21 March: 15:00 – 22:15
Sun 22 March: 10:30 – 18:00
