Belgian National Orchestra: season kick off in September
Categories: Concert
Date: 14/09/2018
Time: 20 h 00 - 22 h 30
Location: Center for Fine Arts - BOZAR
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For the 2018-2019 season, the Belgian National Orchestra is continuing its musical triptych dedicated to the progress of humanity, devoting this second instalment to the collective and individual excesses of mankind, prey to the amorous, belligerent and megalomaniac instincts as symbolised by Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
The common theme of this season’s programme is an imaginary correspondence between Beethoven and his successors, heirs to his artistic heritage. Conducted by Hugh Wolff, musical director of the BNO, and in collaboration with La Monnaie Orchestra, four concerts will bring together the composer’s emblematic symphonies. Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Ravel, Corigliano and Bizet will “respond” to the genius of their prestigious predecessors. Sopranos Hendrickje Van Kerkhove and Elisabeth Kulman, and pianists Nelson Freire and Kit Armstrong will be their messengers.
On Friday 14 September, the season kicks off in style at the Centre for Fine Arts, with Silvestre Revueltas, Bartok and Tchaikovsky on the programme of Forbidden Loves, with violin soloist Augustin Hadelich. In November, the Belgian National Orchestra will be commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the First World War by offering carte blanche to the Belgian composer Annelies van Parys. A War Requiem, a work that was specially written for the occasion, will be performed by the Collegium Vocale Gent in the company of soprano Sophie Karthäuser and baritone Thomas Bauer.
Other unmissable events await you throughout the year, such as the Christmas concerts conducted by Otto Tausk on 21 and 22 December or the numerous musical evenings with world famous orchestra conductors and exceptional soloists, the accompaniment to the Queen Elisabeth Competition violin final, original collaborations and a youth programme.
