17–18 May 2025

Concert 3 - Forties

Sunday 23 May 2021 at 11am

Our 1940s concert takes us to the stars and back. Weinberg’s clarinet sonata glances at Shostakovich, before a detour to the Golden Age of Hollywood. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time provides a last word on these tumultous decades, and on music’s great power of transcendence. 

WEINBERG
Clarinet Sonata Op. 28 (1945)
Lloyd van’t Hoff (clarinet), Konstantin Shamray (piano)

Various Songs from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Lorina Gore (soprano), Anna Goldsworthy (piano)

~ Interval ~

MESSIAEN
Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940)
Lloyd van’t Hoff (clarinet), Andrew Haveron (violin), Umberto Clerici (cello), Anna Goldsworthy (piano)