La Jolla Music Society's penultimate festival concert featured music that related to forms of silencing, such as imprisonment, loss and apocalypse
Summerfest continued Friday evening with a diverse program titled “Unsilenced Voices,” an understated, if apt, headline for the scope of the evening’s music.
Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff’s stylistic language is broad and bold, and his 1924 “Five Pieces for String Quartet” make an ideal anthology of Weimar Republic musical tendencies. All manner of string gestures — percussive battuto bowing, aggressive glissandi, fierce rhythmic pizzicato — were rendered in the most vivid detail by violinists Andrew Wan and Augustin Hadelich, violist Jonathan Vinocour and cellist Clive Greensmith.
Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” was written and premiered in 1941, during the composer’s internment in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Anthony McGill played the solo clarinet movement, “The Abyss of Time,” with a grippingly beautiful take on Messiaen’s eschatological visions. McGill is a master of physicality and timbre, and he sculpted the sonic distance of Messaien’s materials, moving the music from near to far.
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