Memento – Münchner Rundfunkorchester & BR Chor

Sounds of Memory

Ravel, Schoenberg, Messiaen—they reflect on the defining moments of their era and arrive at musical expressions that could hardly be more different: Ravel composes a Baroque “Tombeau”—a memorial piece for friends who fell in World War I. Schönberg’s *Melodram* offers a glimpse into the traumatic depths of the Shoah, and Messiaen, during the German occupation of France, composes a radical spiritual counterworld in which divine presence reigns in place of violence.

Program:

Arnold Schoenberg
“A Survivor from Warsaw”
for narrator, male chorus, and orchestra, Op. 46

Maurice Ravel
“Le tombeau de Couperin”
Orchestral version

Olivier Messiaen
“Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine”
for women’s choir, piano, ondes Martenot, celesta, vibraphone, percussion, and strings

Performers:

Joonas Ahonen, piano
Nathalie Forget, Ondes Martenot
Robin Adams, recitation

Bavarian Radio Choir
Munich Radio Orchestra
Patrick Hahn, conductor

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