Theme Concert: Big Bang

NB: There is a warm-up talk at 19.00 before the concert. In the beginning there was chaos - so it is told in Greek mythology. Looking at it scientifically, we must admit that we know nothing about what happened before the Big Bang. On the other hand, we can follow how the universe has developed since the first explosion - from the earliest stars, to the second and now third generation, which paved the way for our solar system and life on Earth. Astrophysicists also have a theory about the end of the universe: how the energy slowly dissipates until everything becomes nothing. Ensemble MidtVest interprets this cosmic story in music - through seven stations, seven works and seven moments in a kaleidoscope of the history of time and space. Before the Big Bang: JOHN CAGE (1912-1992) 4’33 Explosion and the emergence of the elements: JEAN-FÉRY REBEL (1666-1747) Les Élemens for flute, clarinet, violin and cello I. Le Cahos Stardust and the emergence of order: PER NØRGÅRD (1932-2025) Spell for clarinet, cello and piano The emergence of the Earth: OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908-1992) Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano I. Liturgie de cristal The sounds of life: GEORGE CRUMB (1929-2022) Vox Balaenae for flute, cello and piano Evolution and energy: KAIJA SAARIAHO (1952-2023) Cendres for alto flute, cello and piano The end of the universe: ARVO PÄRT (b. 1935) Spiegel im Spiegel for cello and piano

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens

The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

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Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

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