Flanders Symphony Orchestra, one of Belgium’s most distinguished orchestras, under its Music Director Jan Latham-Koenig, presents two unique programmes weaving music, poetry and human responses to the realities of war.
The first two pieces by Debussy and Elgar were written as contributions to King Albert’s Book published in Britain by The Telegraph, as Debussy put it ‘an homage to so much patient suffering’ after the German invasion of Belgium in World War 1.
Ibert’s three-movement symphony based on Oscar Wilde’s poem, narrated by Simon Callow, captures the brutal beauty of his meditations on life in gaol and his reflections on morality, the death penalty and the penal system.
Composers Richard Blackford and Piet Swerts have been commissioned by the Orchestra to write music inspired by war atrocities in Flanders – John McCrae’s In Flanders Field is the inspiration for Richard Blackford’s new work. Piet Swerts writes, ‘I knew that the power of music could evoke and transcend this drama’, and the concert ends with the positivity of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto with chart-topping pianist Alice Sara Ott, and Stravinsky's sensational The Rite of Spring, under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies.
The celebrated Russian pianist performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. Holst's spectacular orchestral suite The Planets completes the programme conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Michael Sanderling conducts Rachmaninov's sumptuous Piano Concerto No. 1 with award-winning Russian pianist Andrei Korobeinikov, followed by Brahms' pathos-filled Fourth Symphony with its thunderous...
The acclaimed Maestro Valery Gergiev conducts the winners of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition accompanied by this outstanding Russian orchestra.
The Polish soprano sings Strauss' radiant Four Last Songs, conducted by Yoel Levi, which is followed by Mahler's ebullient Symphony No. 4 whose last movement features a solo soprano.
The distinguished Belgian orchestra's second concert presents music written for or about Napoleon including Beethoven's Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra, and works by Berlioz, Lesueur...
Beethoven's wonderful Violin Concerto, with soloist Chloë Hanslip, and Dvořák's Ninth Symphony 'From the New World', one of the most popular symphonies of all time.
The great Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Prokofiev's 'Classical' and Mendelssohn's 'Italian' symphonies, and Tchaikovsky's virtuosic Rococo Variations, with cellist Alexey Stadler.
Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with renowned pianist Nikolai Demidenko and Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, under the baton of Jan Latham-Koenig. Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni opens the concert.
Celebrating its centenary, the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with violin virtuoso Henning Kraggerud, and Shostakovich's hugely popular Fifth Symphony. Excerpts from Grieg's Lyric...
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Closely associated with the music of Anton Bruckner, the Orchestra performs the composer's dramatic Sixth Symphony preceded by Mozart's sunny Piano Concerto No. 23, with Melvyn Tan as soloist. Dennis...
Dennis Russell Davies conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Philip Glass' Ninth Symphony, highly regarded by critics and dsecribed as 'a significant symphony by America’s most significant...
Pavel Kogan directs Prokofiev's energetic Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist John Lill, and Rachmaninov's hauntingly beautiful Symphony No. 2. Stephen Johnson's suite based on the classic novel by...
Barry Douglas performs Schumann's lyrical and joyful Piano Concerto, framed by Franck's Symphony with its magnificent finale and Fauré's last orchestral composition, the elegant Masques et...
