Go to the main content
Logo Concertgebouw Brugge
Logo Concertgebouw Brugge

Katharine Dain & Sam Armstrong

Messiaen. Poèmes pour Mi

this event is part of

TOPSTUK MESSIAEN 2023

music
intimate
Thu 04 May 2023 -20.00
Concertzaal
introduction by Jan Christiaens 19.15
start 20.00
expected end time 21.45
with break

Standard €25.00

Reduction -26 a. €13.00

All prices include booking fees.

Lockdown project becomes heartfelt cry

An empty schedule, but a head full of dreams. During the mid-pandemic lockdown, American soprano Katharine Dain made a virtue of necessity and created the exhilarating

programme Regards sur l'infini. Its central work is Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi, a declaration of love to Claire Delbos, his first wife. This is complemented by the music of Delbos herself, Kaija Saariaho and others. Katharine Dains’ and pianist Sam Armstrong's recording of Regards sur l'infini was awarded the Edison Classical Award 2021 for Best Debut.

 

programme

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Poèmes pour Mi
3 mélodies

And lieder by Claire Delbos (1906-1959), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Claude Debussy (1862-1918) & Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Poèmes pour Mi
3 mélodies

And lieder by Claire Delbos (1906-1959), Kaija Saariah

performers

Katharine Dain: soprano
Sam Armstrong: piano

Thu 04 May 2023 -20.00
Concertzaal
introduction by Jan Christiaens 19.15
start 20.00
expected end time 21.45
with break

Standard €25.00

Reduction -26 a. €13.00

All prices include booking fees.