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Fri 24.03.23 20:00

Mehldau by Mehldau - Luc Brewaeys Debussy Préludes

Debussy’s Préludes belong to the canon of piano repertoire. Debussy gave each of these 24 short character pieces a descriptive title (e.g. Danseuses de Delphes, Minstrels and Brouillards). In each case he notated them not at the beginning but at the end of the Préludes, so that the titles should be

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Fri 31.03.23 20:00

Arabella Steinbacher & Korngold - Larcher

Vagueness? Negligence? We have no idea why Franz Schubert never completed his Symphony No. 8. Traditionally, a symphony has four movements, and yet Schubert only composed two of these customary four movements. But is something ever really finished? As Leonardo da Vinci famously said, "art is never

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Sun 16.04.23 11:00

Wake up with the Young Belgian Strings

The Young Belgian Strings is a string orchestra composed of 21 young talents from the different string instrument classes of all the Royal Conservatories and Music Schools of Belgium. The aim of the string orchestra is to give to laureates and students the opportunity to meet, exchange experiences

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Sat 22.04.23 20:00

Belgian National Orchestra & La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra – Glière 3

Reinhold Glière’s Symphony No. 3 is seldom performed: the vast instrumentation, the length and the technical difficulty make each performance a real challenge. To perform this phenomenal composition, a monument of Slavic culture, in Bozar, the Belgian National Orchestra is working with the La

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Fri 28.04.23 20:00

Alexandre Kantorow & Tchaikovsky 2 - Prokofiev

The modernism of the Tatar-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidoelina was not appreciated in the Soviet Union. She was only allowed to compose music for documentaries, animation films and radio programmes. Her composition Fairy-Tale Poem began as music to accompany a radio broadcast of the Czech fairy tale

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Sat 29.04.23 19:00

Alexandre Kantorow & Tchaikovsky 2 - Prokofiev

The modernism of the Tatar-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidoelina was not appreciated in the Soviet Union. She was only allowed to compose music for documentaries, animation films and radio programmes. Her composition Fairy-Tale Poem began as music to accompany a radio broadcast of the Czech fairy tale

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Sat 06.05.23 20:00

Hartmut Haenchen & Bruckner 9 - Te Deum

In recent years, the renowned German conductor Hartmut Haenchen, who as music director in the 1990s led the Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra to unprecedented feats of brilliance, has conducted a lot of research into Bruckner’s symphonies. One of the fruits of this is

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Sun 21.05.23 15:00

Emmanuel Pahud, Anneleen Lenaerts & Mozart - Beethoven

After initial studies in Seoul, the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin moved to Hamburg in the 1980s, where she was taught for three years by none other than the Hungarian composer György Ligeti. One of her most recent pieces is Subito con forza, a concert opener she wrote in 2020 on the occasion of

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Fri 26.05.23 19:30

Film Symphonic : Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock full symphony – Frank Strobel

The German conductor Frank Strobel is a pioneer of film concerts. He introduced the Western world to the film music of Alfred Schnittke, reconstructed the score Prokofiev wrote for the Soviet film Alexander Nevsky and conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the world premiere of the restored

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Sat 10.06.23 20:00

Julien Libeer & Debussy / Ravel

Julien Libeer is a leading classical pianist in Belgium. Since receiving the prestigious Juventus Prize at the age of 20, he has been hailed by domestic and foreign press as one of the most striking musical personalities of the young generation. In recent years, he has been a guest at major venues

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Fri 16.06.23 20:00

Baiba Skride & Mozart - Lutosławski

The American jazz pianist and composer Anthony Davis has written many engaging operas, including one about the African American civil rights activist Malcolm X and about the Central Park jogger case, a court case in which black and Latino youths were convicted of a rape they did not commit

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Wed 21.06.23 20:00

Fête de la Musique

Throughout his life, Mendelssohn was fascinated by the works of Shakespeare. At the age of 17, after reading a German translation, he wrote a concert overture to the romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Many years later, at the request of the King of Prussia, Mendelssohn also composed

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Tue 27.06.23 20:00

A Night at the Opera with Rolando Villazón

The Franco-Mexican opera star Rolando Villazón enchants audiences worldwide with his phenomenal vocal control and unparalleled charisma. Known as “the most charming of today’s divos” (The Times) with “a wonderfully virile voice ... ‘grandezza’, elegance and power” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Villazón is

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Thu 29.06.23 20:00

A Night at the Opera with Rolando Villazón

The Franco-Mexican opera star Rolando Villazón enchants audiences worldwide with his phenomenal vocal control and unparalleled charisma. Known as “the most charming of today’s divos” (The Times) with “a wonderfully virile voice ... ‘grandezza’, elegance and power” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Villazón is

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Fri 08.09.23 20:00

Prokofiev & Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven

Since Norwegian star pianist Leif Ove Andsnes recorded all Beethoven's piano concertos for the well-known Sony Classics label some ten years ago (The Beethoven Journey), he has been considered an absolute Beethoven authority. During the opening concert, he will play the fifth, last and perhaps most

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Fri 15.09.23 20:00

Film Symphonic: Varieté Dirk Brossé

After an accident, the famous trapeze artist Boß can no longer perform. Together with his wife and child, he runs a fairstand in Hamburg’s nightlife district of St Pauli. One day, some sailors bring a young and beautiful girl who starts dancing in his business. Soon Boß falls in love with the girl

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Sat 23.09.23 19:00

Mahler 1 & Ibragimova plays Mozart

When Mozart was in the service of the Salzburg archbishops in the 1770s, he wrote a series of five violin concertos. Russian-British violinist Alina Ibragimova performs the last and most substantial of these. Unlike Bach and Haydn, Mozart often allows the solo violin to play in a much higher

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Sun 24.09.23 15:00

Mahler 1 & Ibragimova plays Mozart

When Mozart was in the service of the Salzburg archbishops in the 1770s, he wrote a series of five violin concertos. Russian-British violinist Alina Ibragimova performs the last and most substantial of these. Unlike Bach and Haydn, Mozart often allows the solo violin to play in a much higher

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Fri 29.09.23 20:00

Mahler 1 & Bezuidenhout plays Mozart

Mozart’s Don Giovanni has an almost mythical status. The scene in which the libertine main character is dragged into hell by “Il Commendatore” particularly captures the imagination. The dark music Mozart wrote for this scene is already announced in the dramatic overture. Mozart’s Ninth Piano

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Sat 30.09.23 20:00

Mahler 1 & Bezuidenhout plays Mozart

Mozart’s Don Giovanni has an almost mythical status. The scene in which the libertine main character is dragged into hell by “Il Commendatore” particularly captures the imagination. The dark music Mozart wrote for this scene is already announced in the dramatic overture. Mozart’s Ninth Piano

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Fri 06.10.23 20:00

Symphonic Hour - Shostakovich 8

Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony is the second of three wartime symphonies the Soviet composer wrote between 1941 and 1945. This colossal work, which stemmed from the darkest days of the war with Nazi Germany with the infamous Battle of Stalingrad, is perhaps Shostakovich’s most tragic composition. In

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Sun 08.10.23 15:00

Shostakovich 8 & Lorenzo Gatto plays Saint-Saëns

After the Franco-German war in 1871, Camille Saint-Saëns was more motivated than ever to make French symphonic music (which had hardly existed since Berlioz) compete with German symphonic music. For too long, France had focused on opera and ballet. Saint-Saëns’ Third Violin Concerto, now one of his

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Sat 21.10.23 20:00

Beethoven 3 & Yibai Chen plays Shostakovich

Chinese cellist Yibai Chen (Seconde Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2022) performs Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, one of the most difficult pieces of the cello repertoire. Shostakovich composed this work in 1959, stimulated by Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante. Renowned Russian cellist

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Sun 22.10.23 20:00

Beethoven 3 & Yibai Chen plays Shostakovich

Chinese cellist Yibai Chen (Seconde Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2022) performs Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, one of the most difficult pieces of the cello repertoire. Shostakovich composed this work in 1959, stimulated by Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante. Renowned Russian cellist

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Sun 05.11.23 15:00

Orchestrascope by Zonzo Compagnie (Big Bang Festival)

In this family concert (part of the Big Bang Festival), Zonzo Compagnie goes back in time to the beginning of the rich history of cinema. The discovery of the moving image appealed to the imagination and the possibility of special effects gave a boost to creative ideas. However, a challenge still

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Sat 11.11.23 19:00

Handel Messiah - Sandrine Piau & Choeur de Chambre de Namur

When Italian opera went out of fashion in London in the 1730s, Handel switched to composing Englishlanguage oratorios. Handel had already gained some experience in this genre in Rome, where opera was under papal ban. Messiah, written in 1741, is his eighth oratorio and uses texts from the King James

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Sun 12.11.23 15:00

Handel Messiah - Sandrine Piau & Choeur de Chambre de Namur

When Italian opera went out of fashion in London in the 1730s, Handel switched to composing Englishlanguage oratorios. Handel had already gained some experience in this genre in Rome, where opera was under papal ban. Messiah, written in 1741, is his eighth oratorio and uses texts from the King James

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Fri 24.11.23 20:00

Nielsen 3 & Tetzlaff plays Sibelius

In Nature’s Realm, a concert overture by Antonín Dvořák, sounds like a landscape painting of the peaceful forests surrounding the Czech composer’s home village. The counterpoint at the end of this work is an ode to Johann Sebastian Bach. Things get even more idyllic in Finnish composer Jean Sibelius

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Sun 03.12.23 15:00

Antony Hermus conducts Tristan und Isolde

Few works have influenced music history as profoundly as Wagner’s musical drama Tristan und Isolde. Chief conductor and Wagner specialist Antony Hermus performs a 75-minute orchestral arrangement by Dutch composer Henk de Vlieger. This is extended, especially for this concert, to include the

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Fri 15.12.23 20:00

Orchestre National de Lyon - Nielsen 4 & Maria João Pires plays Beethoven

For this exchange concert, the Orchestre National de Lyon comes to Bozar. Led by the Danish-Israeli conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, principal conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon since the 2020-2021 season, horn player Guillaume Tétu will venture into a new work by the French-Lebanese

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Fri 22.12.23 18:00

Winter Concert - Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

Représentation en français avec surtitres en néerlandais le 22.12 Nederlandstalige voorstelling met Franse boventitels op 23.12 Every year, Bozar and the Belgian National Orchestra organise a heart-warming family performance just before the Christmas holidays. This year, we will venture into

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Sat 23.12.23 18:00

Winter Concert - Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

Représentation en français avec surtitres en néerlandais le 22.12 Nederlandstalige voorstelling met Franse boventitels op 23.12 Every year, Bozar and the Belgian National Orchestra organise a heart-warming family performance just before the Christmas holidays. This year, we will venture into

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Wed 27.12.23 15:00

Winter Concert - Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

Représentation en français avec surtitres en néerlandais le 22.12 Nederlandstalige voorstelling met Franse boventitels op 23.12 Every year, Bozar and the Belgian National Orchestra organise a heart-warming family performance just before the Christmas holidays. This year, we will venture into

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Fri 05.01.24 19:00

New Year’s Concert with Antony Hermus

The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March

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Sat 06.01.24 20:00

New Year’s Concert with Antony Hermus

The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March

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Sun 07.01.24 15:00

New Year’s Concert with Antony Hermus

The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March

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Tue 09.01.24 20:00

New Year’s Concert with Antony Hermus

The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March

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Sun 14.01.24 17:00

New Year’s Concert with Antony Hermus

The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March

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Sun 21.01.24 15:00

Hartmut Haenchen conducts Bruckner 8

One of the gems of the early cello repertoire is Joseph Haydn’s Second Cello Concerto. Recent research has revealed that Haydn wrote this very classical composition in 1783 for James Cervetto, the principal cellist of the Italian Opera House in London. His brilliant virtuosity and expressive

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Fri 02.02.24 20:00

Prokofiev Festival - Alexander Melnikov & Veronika Eberle

Between 1918 and 1936, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev went into exile and avoided his homeland, the newly-founded Soviet Union. After wandering for several years, mainly in America, he settled in Paris in 1923. There he intensified his contacts with the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The

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Sun 04.02.24 15:00

Prokofiev Festival - Alexander Melnikov & Veronika Eberle

Between 1918 and 1936, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev went into exile and avoided his homeland, the newly-founded Soviet Union. After wandering for several years, mainly in America, he settled in Paris in 1923. There he intensified his contacts with the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The

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Fri 23.02.24 20:00

Symphonic Hour - Sibelius 5 & Kobekina plays Elgar

The Cello Concerto in E minor is the last major work by the British composer Edward Elgar. He wrote this four-movement concerto in 1919, just after the First World War. Its elegiac and contemplative mood can be linked to the anxiety, despair and disillusionment of the war years. The sinuous main

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Thu 07.03.24 20:00

Film Symphonic: The Phantom of the Opera / Frank Strobel

German conductor Frank Strobel is a pioneer of film concerts. In this concert he conducts the score composed by Carl Davis in 1996 to accompany the American silent horror film The Phantom of the Opera. In the early 1920s, New Zealand director Rupert Julian conceived the idea of filming The Phantom

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Fri 15.03.24 20:00

Wim Henderickx, Tejas & Stravinsky Le sacre du Printemps

Tejas (which in Sanskrit means fire, light, vitality, magical power and creative energy) is a seven-part composition for large orchestra by the season composer, Wim Henderickx. Musical influences and instruments from all over the world can be found in this work. A titanic percussion section of five

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Fri 29.03.24 20:00

Khachatryan plays Schumann

The Tatar-born Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, now 92, grew up under Stalin, received an encouraging speech from Shostakovich at her composition final exam in Moscow and has been living as a kind of hermit near Hamburg since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The title of her orchestral

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Sat 30.03.24 20:00

Khachatryan plays Schumann

The Tatar-born Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, now 92, grew up under Stalin, received an encouraging speech from Shostakovich at her composition final exam in Moscow and has been living as a kind of hermit near Hamburg since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The title of her orchestral

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Sun 14.04.24 15:00

Mahler 6 & Goerner plays Mozart

When a radio interviewer asked the world-renowned Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner what exactly he admired about Mozart’s Twentythird Piano Concerto, he listed the following: “the surprising simplicity, the musical depth and the mysterious contemplation”. By this he was referring especially to the

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Fri 19.04.24 20:30

Tchaikovsky 5 & Florian Noack plays Medtner

Coriolanus was a Roman patrician who tried to become consul after several military successes. When this failed, he turned against Rome. He made an alliance with a hostile people and laid siege to his own home town. At the height of the battle, Rome sent a group of women to Coriolanus to negotiate

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Sat 20.04.24 20:00

Tchaikovsky 5 & Florian Noack plays Medtner

Coriolanus was a Roman patrician who tried to become consul after several military successes. When this failed, he turned against Rome. He made an alliance with a hostile people and laid siege to his own home town. At the height of the battle, Rome sent a group of women to Coriolanus to negotiate

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Sun 21.04.24 16:00

Tchaikovsky 5 & Florian Noack plays Medtner

Coriolanus was a Roman patrician who tried to become consul after several military successes. When this failed, he turned against Rome. He made an alliance with a hostile people and laid siege to his own home town. At the height of the battle, Rome sent a group of women to Coriolanus to negotiate

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Thu 25.04.24 20:00

Film Symphonic - Joker / Dirk Brossé

The psychological thriller Joker was undoubtedly one of the most memorable films of the year 2019. The unique origin story surrounding Arthur Fleck, who eventually becomes the psychopathic supervillain terrorizing Gotham City, could charm friend and foe of the Batman universe. That has everything to

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Fri 03.05.24 20:00

Mussorgsky / González-Monjas plays and conducts Mozart

Our first guest conductor Roberto González-Monjas began his career as a violin soloist, concertmaster and chamber musician. Today, in addition to being a conductor, he is still active as a violinist. Sometimes he plays and conducts at the same time, as in his sensational recording of Mozart’s

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