Our fellow countryman Yossif Ivanov, a favourite with the public since the Queen Elisabeth Competition, solos in Stravinsky’s only concerto for the smallest of the string instruments.
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In collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre
Frank Peter Zimmermann displays his talents in a rendition of Beethoven's everlasting Violin concerto. Preceded and followed by ballet music.
10:30 & 11:00 Guided tour in the exhibition EUROPALIA INDONESIA: Ancestors & Rituals of Power and other things
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Introduction
15:00 Concert
Hugh Wolff & Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Claude Debussy, Jeux
In association with Müpa in Budapest, we are presenting an evening of vocal music. In addition to the Nemzeti Énekkar (National Choir), a series of young Hungarian singers will be taking to the stage, including Queen Elisabeth Competition winner Szabolcs Brickner.
Queen Elisabeth prize-winner Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, a work of art reserved for none but the very best. We then turn to the ambiance of Eastern Europe with lyrical works (Lutosławski) and works inspired by folklore (Ligeti).
Hugh Wolff presents two perennial works from the modern repertoire. Ligeti’s dreamy Lontano was used in the bloodcurdling thriller Shutter Island while in the fierce yet ironic Ninth Symphony, the last of his works to be fully completed, Mahler seems to be issuing a challenge in the face of dea
It is a pleasure revisited for Marin Alsop and Lukáš Vondráček, because the Czech pianist was winner of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition with Alsop conducting the NOB.
Marin Alsop & Lukas Vondracek (piano)
Anna Clyne, Masquerade
During the traditional Christmas concert the Flemish Opera Choir will be joined on stage by a sand artist who will be producing a work of art live in front of the audience. Musically we will be exploring Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, a treasure trove of hypnotic melodies, of which the Wal
Cars fly, trees fight back, and monsters are on the loose in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
The New Year concert by the National Orchestra is an excellent opportunity, in this quiet period after the festive season, to put a number of swinging numbers you can dance to on the programme and needless to say the Viennese waltzes and polkas of the Strauss dynasty are an absolute must.
11:00 Open repetition Belgian National Orchestra
Hugh Wolff & Esther Yoo (viool)
Frank Bridge, The sea
Jean Sibelius, Concerto voor viool en orkest in d, op. 47
Thomas Adès, Tempest Overture
Claude Debussy, La Mer
The Korean-American Esther Yoo, in 2012 one of the youngest ever winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, is soloist in a performance of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, a work she has already recorded with the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy.
We have invited the English virtuoso Steven Isserlis to perform Haydn's technically challenging Second Cello Concerto, one of the great works in the repertoire.
Frank Braley, who quietly won the Queen Elisabeth Competition back in 1991, is the star of the show in the blues and jazz influenced Piano Concerto in G by Ravel.
The American-Venezuelan Gabriela Montero, known for her briliant improvisations, is soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto, the only one he wrote for his favourite instrument and that was an immediate success.
10:30 & 11:00 Guided tour in the exposition Fernand Léger. Beauty is Everywhere
Hugh Wolff & Gabriela Montero (piano)
Grégory d'Hoop, When Beethoven meets the gusle-player
The Taiwanese-Australian virtuoso Ray Chen, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth Competitions at a very young age, shines in Tchaikovsky's extremely difficult Violin Concerto.
‘Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.’ If there is one work that can claim to illustrate these words of Beethoven’s, it is his own Ninth Symphony, with its renowned setting of Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy.
Mysterium
Alexander Scriabin, Mysterium
14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition Spanish Still Life
At the invitation of Klarafestival, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Festival of Flanders-Brussels
In 2016 Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset released the album ‘Snowmelt’ on the ACT label ̶ a collaboration with the London Sinfonietta chamber orchestra, and its most ambitious project to date.
Belgian National Orchestra conducted by David Ramael.
Bertrand Chamayou, the standard-bearer of the new generation of French pianists, is soloist for Beethoven's lyrical Fourth. It was with this work of revolutionary form that the musical iconoclast raised the concerto to symphonic heights.
The French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras has to draw on all his technical prowess in Prokofiev's Sinfonia concertante, one of the most difficult concertos for this instrument.
