Akoka: Reframing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

Jonathan Crow, Geoffrey Burleson, Matt Haimovitz, David Krakauer

Pubblicato il 01/04/14 su PentaTone
Artisti principali: David Krakauer
Genere: Musica da camera

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Here, the graphics inform, is a "reframing" of Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, the majuscule not being sufficiently hip for the concept. How is it usually "framed?" By, according to cellist Matt Haimovitz, "the confines of a normal chamber music performance," although the work's first performance, in a German prisoner-of-war camp, was anything but normal. The honoree designated by the title was clarinetist Henri Akoka, the original performer of the work's clarinet part. He was an Algerian-born Jew who seemed to be in mortal danger even as Messiaen himself was being released, but survived by leaping from a train with his clarinet and making his way to occupied Marseille. Akoka is apparently the subject of the program's stated aim of bringing out "the human aspect of this composition seen through the eyes of one individual caught up in terrifying events beyond his control." Deployed in support of this aim are a prelude, Akoka, by clarinetist David Krakauer, in a sort of extended klezmer language, and a postlude, the electronic collage by hip-hop artist socalled, which samples the quartet itself and adds beats, bits of radio broadcasts, and Jewish singing. In between these works are the eight movements of the Quartet for the End of Time itself, electronically amplified. There is nothing wrong with these ideas in themselves, and the obvious analogues between hip-hip and concert-music collage techniques remain to be fully explored.
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Akoka: Reframing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time

David Krakauer

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Akoka (David Krakauer)

Akoka

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David Krakauer, Composer, clarinet - Jonathan Crow, violin - Matt Haimovitz, violoncello - Geoffrey Burleson, piano

Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22 (Olivier Messiaen)

I. Liturgie de cristal

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