Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
Olivier Messiaen
Movements from Catalogues d'Oiseaux (The Catalogue of Birds):
Le Traquet Stapazin
La Bouscarle
Le Loriot
Le Merle Bleu
How can the natural be translated into abstract musical form? This question preoccupied not only this year's Music Festival composer György Ligeti, but almost simultaneously his French colleague Olivier Messiaen. While Ligeti dealt with the phenomena of cloud formation in "Atmosphères", for example, it was Messiaen's passion for birdcalls that led to several of his most important works. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Messiaen's second-to-none expert, has extensively studied this bird world domesticated in sound, whose radicalism he admires.
"With the birdcalls, Messiaen created an open sound space in which the unexpected can occur," is how the French pianist characterizes this very unique microcosm. At the Musikfest, Aimard will now explore the dazzling sound worlds of the "Catalogue d'oiseaux" and interpret the work throughout the day at various listening and performance venues. Almost from a bird's-eye view - on the top floor of the OpernTurm - one can experience the dawn over the city to the sounds of the musically portrayed birds, before Messiaen's music is performed at further stations during the day where birds in the flesh can be heard and observed - and where nature can be experienced: in the bird halls of the Frankfurt Zoo and in the Palmengarten.
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