Dresdner Musikfestspiele: Capuçon — Vogler — Moraguès — Mercier

About the Event

A chamber music concert featuring Renaud Capuçon, Jan Vogler, Pascal Moraguès, and Hélène Mercier, showcasing timeless works. A musical matinée in a class of its own is promised by the all‐French program that Jan Vogler has put together together with his top‐class French musical friends: violinist Renaud Capuçon, pianist Hélène Mercier and Pascal Moraguès, principal clarinet of the Orchestre de Paris. In addition to Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano, written between 1923 and 1927, with its distinctive blues as the middle movement, and Debussy's “Première rhapsodie” for clarinet and piano, and piano, one of the most famous pieces in the clarinet repertoire, will be interspersed with Olivier Messiaen's “Quartet for the End of Time”, which never fails to move the listener. The composer completed it as a prisoner at the German prisoner‐of‐war camp Stalag VIII‐A in the Moys district of Görlitz in late 1940/early 1941. Messiaen later wrote about the performance at the time: “The audience was an extremely diverse mix from all walks of life – farm laborers, unskilled laborers, intellectuals, professional soldiers, doctors and clergy. Never again was I listened to with such attention and such understanding as I was then.”