| Our first concert features the Akoka Quartet, whose members are talented young New Zealanders now based in the UK, each with an impressive biography: Sarah Masters (clarinet), Simeon Broom (violin), Rachel Church (piano), and Victoria Simonsen (cello), winner of the 2008 Royal Overseas League Strings Competition.
Milhaud’s Suite Opus 157b (1936) is one of his most successful chamber works. Full of wit and sparkle, it is elegant in its surprising complexity. Fauré’s late Piano Trio Opus 120 (1924), written when the composer was 78, is an unquestioned masterwork, with confident formal freedom, graceful lyricism and an unmistakable, personal language. Messiaen’s astounding Quartet for the End of Time, a work first heard on a cold winter’s night in 1941 in a German prisoner-of-war camp, was written for the instruments and players Messiaen found among his fellow inmates. Expect an afternoon of virtuosic chamber music!
This concert is presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand Sunday 22 April3:00 pm, Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town HallPROGRAMME:
Milhaud – Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Opus 157b
Fauré – Piano Trio in D minor, Opus 120
Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
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