Aimard Toca Messiaen
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The Remix Ensemble begins the Year of France with three generations of composers and a great pianist from that country. One of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, Olivier Messiaen composed several ground-breaking works exploring musical material derived from birdsongs. In Les Oiseaux Exotiques, he brings together American and Asian birdsongs. The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a reference soloist of this favourite piece of the general public and with it inaugurates his artistic residency at Casa da Música. This concert opens the retrospective of Philippe Manoury's work, one of today's most important French composers, but the programme's latest work belongs to Christophe Bertrand, a composer who was destined to become a lasting reference of contemporary French music but who died in 2010, at the age of 29.
