Julien Mignot

Aleksey Shadrin & Camille Thomas / Grieg, Brahms & Glass

Sat 31 Oct 17:00

Studio 4

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31 Oct

17:00

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Brussels Cello Festival 2026 À LA CARTE

20% off when you buy at least 3 tickets for different concerts of your choice during the 2026 Brussels Cello Festival. Excluding the concert on 30 October 2026, ‘Strauss: Don Quixote’.

Program

Edvard Grieg
Sonata for cello and piano in A minor, Op. 36
Allegro agitato – Andante molto tranquillo – Allegro molto e marcato
Aleksey Shadrin, cello – Salih Can Gevrek, piano

Johannes Brahms
Sonata No. 1 for cello and piano in E minor, Op. 38
Allegro non troppo – Allegretto quasi Menuetto – Allegro
Camille Thomas, cello – Julien Brocal, piano

Philip Glass
Truman Sleeps (from The Truman Show)
Camille Thomas, cello – Julien Brocal, piano

artist(s)

Aleksey Shadrin, cello
Camille Thomas, cello
Salih Can Gevrek, piano
Julien Brocal, piano

Romantic Echoes

Two of today’s most compelling cellists meet in a recital built around the extraordinary emotional power of the Romantic cello. Aleksey Shadrin takes on Grieg’s only Cello Sonata, a sweeping work of Nordic lyricism, passion and dramatic energy, before Camille Thomas brings her distinctive voice to Brahms’ First Sonata—one of the great pillars of the cello repertoire, where profound intimacy meets the architectural grandeur of Bach.

After these two Romantic masterpieces, Thomas offers an unexpected epilogue with Philip Glass’ hauntingly beautiful Truman Sleeps. Its luminous simplicity leaves the music suspended between memory and dream—a contemporary echo of the same intimacy and longing heard in Grieg and Brahms more than a century earlier. Three works, two exceptional artists and one of the cello’s greatest strengths: its ability to make the most deeply felt emotions sound almost human.

Immediately following the concert, Camille Thomas will meet audiences for a signing of her latest album dedicated to the music of Philip Glass.

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