A short but intense concert on a Friday night, featuring the French star pianist Alexandre Kantorow venturing into Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto.
During this weekend, the Belgian National Orchestra, conducted by its chief conductor Antony Hermus and in collaboration with Bozar, turns its attention to Brahms. Both piano concertos will be performed with French piano sensation Alexandre Kantorow as soloist, and there will also be two Belgian premieres of works that draw inspiration from Brahms' music.
The Hamburg composer Detlev Glanert subtitled his Brahms-Fantasie 'a heliogravure for orchestra'. By this, he refers to a 19th-century technique in which photographs were painted over using a chemical process. Detlev Glanert based his Brahms-Fantasie on the first bars of Brahms' First Symphony.
What Johannes Brahms ironically called "a very small piano concerto with a very small and pretty scherzo" in a letter to Clara Schumann, is in reality a 50-minute-long mammoth work best described as a symphony with an extra piano part. Brahms' Second piano concerto has not three, but four movements: between the opening movement and the rondo finale, he placed first a tumultuous scherzo and then another adagio.
Enhance your experience beyond the concert with an introduction in Bozar's Henry Le Boeuf Hall! The introduction starts at 19:00 and is free upon presentation of your concert ticket.
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The Belgian National Orchestra and pianist Alexandre Kantorow travel to Namur for a programme devoted to the German composer Brahms.
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Ravel’s biggest orchestra work Daphnis et Chloé, preceded by Liszt’s First Piano Concerto performed by George Li.
Orchestra gems by Lili Boulanger, Richard Strauss and Richard Dubugnon next to Saint-Saëns Second Piano Concerto with pianist Bertrand Chamayou.
