10/14 E-MEX-Ensemble
22 October 2014, 6 p.m. (Admission: 10/8 Euros)
Charles Tournemire
Journey to Undiscovered Modernity
During his lifetime, Charles Tournemire was admired as a great improviser at the organ and as the composer of an extensive oeuvre for this instrument he played. He had been a student of César Franck und beginning in 1898, succeeded him at the Basilique Ste-Clotilde in Paris. Although his originality and individuality relies on a line of tradition that culminates in the works of his teacher César Franck, nevertheless his profile as an artist reveals such individual characteristics that he clearly differs from the Impressionism of his contemporaries. Operas, symphonies, and a considerable number of works for piano attest to the greatness of this composer, whose music even today belongs to the unrecognized musical treasures of the early 20th century. At the same time, Tournemire has not failed to exert influence. For example, Olivier Messiaen confessed to receiving many stimuli and influences from Tournemire's music. He even prophesied that the time would come for Tournemire when this composer's creations would be duly recognized.
Today's program aims to contribute to this recognition by presenting two great chamber music works that attest to the richness and depth of Tournemire's œuvre. His modernity extends beyond Messiaen and his contemporary André Jolivet up to the composers of the Musique Spectrale. Together with the Messiaen-student Tristan Murail and Thierry Blondeau, Tournemire's music constitutes the connection to the present-day exploration of sound, whose physical and acoustical idiosyncrasies here become the departure point for musical progressions in time and form.
Programm
Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
Sonate-Poème op. 65 (1935)
For violin and piano
André Jolivet (1095–1974)
Sonatine (1961)
For flute and clarinet
Thierry Blondeau (1961)
Non-Lieu II (2002)
For clarinet and vioncello
- Break -
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes (1991)
Tristan Murail (1947)
Le fou à pattes bleues (1990)
For flute and piano
Charles Tournemire
Musique orante op. 61 (1933)
For stringquartett
E-MEX
Evelin Degen, flute - Joachim Striepens, clarinet - Kalina Kolarova, violin - Alexandre Dimcevski, violin - Konrad von Coelln, viola - Burkart Zeller, violoncello - Martin von der Heydt, piano
Charles Tournemire
Journey to Undiscovered Modernity
During his lifetime, Charles Tournemire was admired as a great improviser at the organ and as the composer of an extensive oeuvre for this instrument he played. He had been a student of César Franck und beginning in 1898, succeeded him at the Basilique Ste-Clotilde in Paris. Although his originality and individuality relies on a line of tradition that culminates in the works of his teacher César Franck, nevertheless his profile as an artist reveals such individual characteristics that he clearly differs from the Impressionism of his contemporaries. Operas, symphonies, and a considerable number of works for piano attest to the greatness of this composer, whose music even today belongs to the unrecognized musical treasures of the early 20th century. At the same time, Tournemire has not failed to exert influence. For example, Olivier Messiaen confessed to receiving many stimuli and influences from Tournemire's music. He even prophesied that the time would come for Tournemire when this composer's creations would be duly recognized.
Today's program aims to contribute to this recognition by presenting two great chamber music works that attest to the richness and depth of Tournemire's œuvre. His modernity extends beyond Messiaen and his contemporary André Jolivet up to the composers of the Musique Spectrale. Together with the Messiaen-student Tristan Murail and Thierry Blondeau, Tournemire's music constitutes the connection to the present-day exploration of sound, whose physical and acoustical idiosyncrasies here become the departure point for musical progressions in time and form.
Programm
Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
Sonate-Poème op. 65 (1935)
For violin and piano
André Jolivet (1095–1974)
Sonatine (1961)
For flute and clarinet
Thierry Blondeau (1961)
Non-Lieu II (2002)
For clarinet and vioncello
- Break -
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes (1991)
Tristan Murail (1947)
Le fou à pattes bleues (1990)
For flute and piano
Charles Tournemire
Musique orante op. 61 (1933)
For stringquartett
E-MEX
Evelin Degen, flute - Joachim Striepens, clarinet - Kalina Kolarova, violin - Alexandre Dimcevski, violin - Konrad von Coelln, viola - Burkart Zeller, violoncello - Martin von der Heydt, piano