Brussels Philharmonic & Patrick Hahn

Ready for a journey back in time? For one night, festival artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja will transport us to the 1930s, to experience musical milestones from that turbulent period in a unique concert triptych. The setting: the striking Flagey building, which dates from the same period.

The evening’s main event is a concert with Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Patrick Hahn. Patricia Kopatchinskaja pairs Stravinsky’s neoclassical Violin Concerto with her own double concerto, A Play, for violin, cello, and orchestra, with Anastasia Kobekina on cello. Olivier Messiaen’s symphonic meditation Les Offrandes oubliées will also be featured.

But the excitement extends beyond this orchestral feast. As a prelude, Brussels conservatory students take on Edgard Varèse’s Ionisation, a pinnacle of the percussion repertoire. Rounding off the evening, a film screening of Ursonate will show Patricia Kopatchinskaja and colleagues interpreting Kurt Schwitters’ brilliantly Dadaist sound poem. Between segments, ‘PatKop’ and pianist Anthony Romaniuk will perform short works in the same spirit.

programme

19:15 — Studio 1

Johanna Beyer (1888-1944)

Percussion Suite

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

Ionisation

credits

Students from KCB / EHB (coached by Gert François & Bart Quartier) – percussion

Bart Bouckaert – musical direction (Ionisation)

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free upon presentation of a ticket for the concert at 20:00
limited capacity

20:00 — Studio 4

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Violin Concerto in D Major, W. 61

Johann Sebastian Bach (1785-1750)

Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Les Offrandes oubliées

PatKop (1977)

a Play, for violin, cello and orchestra

credits

Brussels Philharmonic – orchestra

Patrick Hahn – musical direction

Patricia Kopatchinskaja – violin

Anastasia Kobekina – cello

tickets

€41 — € 51 concert (without film screening)

21:45 — Studio 1

Film screening of Ursonate, after Kurt Schwitters
A Dadaist sound poem filmed with four non-actors, creating absurd imagery through nonsensical scenes

With musical interludes by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anthony Romaniuk: short pieces by Igor Stravinsky, Giya Kancheli, John Cage and Bohuslav Martinů

credits

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Lucas Fierz, Reto Bieri – concept

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Reto Bieri, Annekatrin Klein, Anthony Romaniuk – acting musicians

Hellerau, European Centre for the arts – coproduction

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