Junge Deutsche Philharmonie: Wirrnis

In the organizer's words:

In addition to the large orchestral ensemble, chamber music is also an integral part of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Clarinet, contrabassoon, cello, violin, trumpet and piano come together for Kammer_Spiel 2026 for concerts with partners in the Rhine-Main region.

The French composer Olivier Messiaen completed his string quartet Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps in 1940/41 in the prisoner of war camp in Görlitz - where the premiere also took place with himself at the piano and other camp inmates on violin, cello and clarinet. The "Quartet for the End of the World" refers to the Book of Revelation and, like so many of Messiaen's works, is musically and tonally inspired by birdsong. The 7th movement of this work gives its name to the program of Kammer_Spiel, our chamber music series with partners in the Rhine-Main region.

For the ballet La revue de cuisine by Bohuslav Martinů, an entertaining work with complex time changes and jazzy influences, the instrumentation will be expanded to include bassoon and trumpet.

The different timbres of the instrumentation are highlighted in the trio for trumpet, violin and piano by US composer Eric Ewazen.

The German-Bohemian-Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff was one of the most experimental and radical personalities in the 1920s and 1930s. Persecuted by the National Socialists, he died in a camp in 1942. In Bassnachtigall, one of the very few solo pieces for contrabassoon, the "intellectual horn-rimmed glasses wearers" in the audience are mocked in a spoken epilogue.

Program:

Eric Ewazen (*1954): Trio for trumpet, violin and piano

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): Bass Nightingale

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano,

Excerpts from:
4th Intermède
6th Danse de la Fureur
7. Fouillis d'Arcs-en-Ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la Fin du Temps

Bohuslav Martinu: Le Revue de Cuisine

Price information:

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