After presenting his two fundamental works, the integral Catalogue d’oiseaux in 2019 the extraordinary Quatuor pour la fin du temps last year, the Settimane Musicali di Ascona re-present a concert entirely dedicated to Olivier Messiaen, one of the greatest figures of 20th-century new music. The concert will involve all of the five soloists invited for the Piemontesi & Friends Series. The program opens with Thèmes et Variations, a 1932 composition for violin and piano, continues with Louange for cello and piano, and finishes with the highlight of this evening, Visions de l’Amen, a suite of seven pieces for two pianists, composed in 1938 and performed when Paris was occupied by the Germans. A work of great spirituality that reflects on the deeper meanings of the word “Amen”, here interpreted by Francesco Piemontesi and Markus Hinterhäuser, at his debut in Ascona.
