Bronsholm Musikfestival has started and we want to recommend this marvelous concert on Thursday.

The concert combines music from Danish composer Josefine Opsahl and Olivier Messiaen. Josefine Opsahl is a remarkable artist and composer who connects music, art, performance and spaces in her works. She extends her classical musical training, knowledge of its history, perception of art and self into different new medias of expression.
 At the core of her work lies a strong will for using her art to examining and rising ethical and social questions as also shows in her effort to share her thoughts and music across cultural and societal structures.
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist known for his complex rhythms, innovative use of harmony, and incorporation of birdsong into his compositions. A devout Catholic, his faith deeply influenced his music, leading to spiritually profound works like ”Quatuor pour la fin du temps.” As a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, he mentored future luminaries of 20th-century music. 
💡 Fun fact: Messiaen had synesthesia, allowing him to ”see” colors when he heard music, a phenomenon that greatly influenced his unique compositional style.
Picture: Rasmus Sigvaldi
Cast:
Toke Hansenius, violin
Lasse Loft Jensen, piano
Max Becker, clarinet
Lavinia Scarpelli, cello
Program:
Josefine Opsahl (b. 1992)
Leiturgia for clarinet and piano (2023)
Prelude – Tetra animation
Nomos – Stele
The Free Individual
Nomos – Pas de deux
The hunt for kinship equality and freedom
The Pact
The Sublime Deed
Nomos – Your freedom is destroying mine
Stele – Symbiosis
Postlude – Tetra inanimation
Josefine Opsahl
Maniai for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2024)
Break
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) (1941)
Liturgie de cristal (Crystal Liturgy)
Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps (Vocalise, to the Angel who announces the end of time)
Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the Birds)
Intermezzo
Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (Praise of the Eternity of Jesus)
Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes (Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets)
Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps (Rainbow chaos, to the Angel who announces the end of time)
Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus (Praise of the Immortality of Jesus)
Ticket price: DKK 180 (adults) / 110 (members of the Friends of the Music Festival), children and young people under 25 free