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Sat 20.07.19 20:00

Concert Prelude to the National Holiday

We are sorry but all tickets to the concert have been distributed. Registrations are now closed. We are looking forward to seeing you next year. On Saturday 20 July at 8pm, a free concert kicks off the National Day celebrations, just before the National Ball which takes place on the Place du Jeu de

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Wed 24.07.19 20:00

Hugh Wolff & Nelson Freire

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Sat 07.09.19 14:00

United Music of Brussels 2019

BOZAR, La Monnaie and the Belgian National Orchestra join forces for the fourth time for an artistic encounter with a wide audience. Music emanates from well-known and less familiar locations in the city to mark the opening of this festive season. More info on www.unitedmusicofbrussels.be

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Fri 13.09.19 20:00

Hugh Wolff & Vadim Repin

MUSIC AS UTOPIA The orchestra as a soloist? We’re all familiar with the concept of the soloist who performs with an orchestra, like violin virtuoso Vadim Repin, for example, in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2. With this concert Prokofiev wanted to get away from the old-fashioned; simply a composition of

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Sat 14.09.19 20:00

Hugh Wolff & Vadim Repin

MUSIC AS UTOPIA The orchestra as a soloist? We’re all familiar with the concept of the soloist who performs with an orchestra, like violin virtuoso Vadim Repin, for example, in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2. With this concert Prokofiev wanted to get away from the old-fashioned; simply a composition of

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Fri 27.09.19 20:00

Stanislav Kochanovsky & Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

OTHER THAN THE OTHERS The Mighty Handful, a group of five prominent Russian composers, including Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakov, set out to create and preserve pure Russian music. So you can see how a title such as Capriccio Espagnol would be unexpected in this context. And yet, the interest in exotic, dif

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Sun 29.09.19 15:00

Stanislav Kochanovsky & Nikolai Lugansky (piano)

OTHER THAN THE OTHERS The Mighty Handful, a group of five prominent Russian composers, including Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakov, set out to create and preserve pure Russian music. So you can see how a title such as Capriccio Espagnol would be unexpected in this context. And yet, the interest in exotic, dif

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Thu 03.10.19 20:00

Pierre Bleuse & Esther Yoo (Violin)

RESTLESS PEACE Klärchen tugs at the collar of her doublet as she awaits her Egmont, the popular dissident. “If I were a boy, I would carry his banner into every fight.” Beethoven’s Egmont, after Goethe’s eponymous tragedy, is a musical act of resistance against an impulsive aggressor. A brave politi

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Sat 05.10.19 19:00

Pierre Bleuse & Esther Yoo (Violin)

RESTLESS PEACE Klärchen tugs at the collar of her doublet as she awaits her Egmont, the popular dissident. “If I were a boy, I would carry his banner into every fight.” Beethoven’s Egmont, after Goethe’s eponymous tragedy, is a musical act of resistance against an impulsive aggressor. A brave politi

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Fri 11.10.19 20:00

James Feddeck & Javier Perianes (Piano)

UNFINISHED Vagueness? Negligence? We have no idea why Franz Schubert never completed his Symphony No. 8. Traditionally, a symphony has four movements, as you can hear in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 – possibly his most known work, with the famous menacing opening motif (short-short-short-long). A subl

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Fri 18.10.19 19:00

Michael Schønwandt & Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

INEXTINGUISHABLE The further we travel northwards, the shorter the days become. In the Arctic Circle the sun never rises above the horizon for several weeks, shrouding everything in a mysterious dark blue light. Perhaps this phenomenon influenced the many magical compositions of so many Scandinavian

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Sat 19.10.19 20:00

Michael Schønwandt & Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

INEXTINGUISHABLE The further we travel northwards, the shorter the days become. In the Arctic Circle the sun never rises above the horizon for several weeks, shrouding everything in a mysterious dark blue light. Perhaps this phenomenon influenced the many magical compositions of so many Scandinavian

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Sun 20.10.19 15:00

Michael Schønwandt & Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

INEXTINGUISHABLE The further we travel northwards, the shorter the days become. In the Arctic Circle the sun never rises above the horizon for several weeks, shrouding everything in a mysterious dark blue light. Perhaps this phenomenon influenced the many magical compositions of so many Scandinavian

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Sat 26.10.19 20:00

Star Wars Live in Concert

Experience the saga like never before! The legendary Star Wars saga, on a gigantic screen, with the epic John Williams soundtrack performed live to picture by the Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brossé… this will be a thrilling experience! This is where it all started over 40 years ago.

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Fri 08.11.19 20:00

Hugh Wolff, Sofia Fomina (Soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), the Octopus choir, Brussels Chamber Choir

RESURRECTION “Rise again, yes, you shall rise again, My dust, after a short rest!”. These lines from a religious ode by Friedrich Klopstock were recited at the funeral of the famous conductor Hans von Bülow. After hearing those, Gustav Mahler, a good friend and admirer of von Bülow, wrote: “It struc

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Sat 09.11.19 20:00

Hugh Wolff, Sofia Fomina (Soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), the Octopus choir, Brussels Chamber Choir

RESURRECTION “Rise again, yes, you shall rise again, My dust, after a short rest!”. These lines from a religious ode by Friedrich Klopstock were recited at the funeral of the famous conductor Hans von Bülow. After hearing those, Gustav Mahler, a good friend and admirer of von Bülow, wrote: “It struc

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Sun 17.11.19 15:00

Hugh Wolff & Steven Isserlis (Cello)

COSMOPOLITAN “Do you compose the music or does the music compose you?”, a southern Chinese monk once asked Tan Dun. And Tan only found the answer to this question when he composed his opera Marco Polo. Different sounds and musical cultures have guided him, throughout his life and work, as you can he

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Sat 23.11.19 11:00

Family concert : Ela Stic

Every day on the way to the school of earthworms, Ela Stic meets a mysterious but very kind bird. Ela did not dare to tell her parents that she would like to have such a bird for a friend. Mom and Dad Stic warn their daughter every day about the dangers lurking below and above the ground. Fortunatel

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Sat 23.11.19 14:00

Family concert : Ela Stic

Every day on the way to the school of earthworms, Ela Stic meets a mysterious but very kind bird. Ela did not dare to tell her parents that she would like to have such a bird for a friend. Mom and Dad Stic warn their daughter every day about the dangers lurking below and above the ground. Fortunatel

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Fri 29.11.19 20:00

Cristian Macelaru & Andrei Ioniţă (cello)

ROADS TO A NEW BEGINNING In 1919, Edward Elgar underwent a tonsillectomy, which was quite a dangerous operation for such an elderly man. When he regained consciousness, he jotted down the melody that would become the first theme of his Cello Concerto. The young Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniță will pe

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Sun 01.12.19 15:00

Cristian Macelaru & Andrei Ioniţă (cello)

ROADS TO A NEW BEGINNING In 1919, Edward Elgar underwent a tonsillectomy, which was quite a dangerous operation for such an elderly man. When he regained consciousness, he jotted down the melody that would become the first theme of his Cello Concerto. The young Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniță will pe

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Fri 06.12.19 20:00

Hartmut Haenchen & Lukáš Vondráček (Piano)

BRUCKNER/BRAHMS #2 As is often the case with artists, Bruckner’s talent was only really appreciated after his death. His symphonies became immensely popular during the 20th century, largely because of the emergence of long playing records, which proved eminently suited for the length and repetitive

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Sat 07.12.19 20:00

Hartmut Haenchen & Lukáš Vondráček (Piano)

BRUCKNER/BRAHMS #2 As is often the case with artists, Bruckner’s talent was only really appreciated after his death. His symphonies became immensely popular during the 20th century, largely because of the emergence of long playing records, which proved eminently suited for the length and repetitive

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Fri 20.12.19 18:00

Christmas concert : The Snow Maiden

In 1873, the Bolshoi Theater commissioned this work from Alexander Ostrovsky. The latter engaged Tchaikovsky for the composition of the music. Who else but him to recreate the magic of Christmas crystallized in The Snow Maiden? The Snow Maiden (Snégourochka in Russian) is a recurring character in So

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Sat 21.12.19 18:00

Christmas concert : The Snow Maiden

In 1873, the Bolshoi Theater commissioned this work from Alexander Ostrovsky. The latter engaged Tchaikovsky for the composition of the music. Who else but him to recreate the magic of Christmas crystallized in The Snow Maiden? The Snow Maiden (Snégourochka in Russian) is a recurring character in So

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