Johan Jacobs

Boris Giltburg, Brussels Philharmonic & Kazushi Ono

Name: Boris Giltburg, Brussels Philharmonic & Kazushi Ono — Beethoven & Szymanowski
Start: 2027-06-05T20:15:00+02:00
End: 2027-06-05T22:15:00+02:00
Location: Flagey

Beethoven & Szymanowski

Sat 5 Jun 20:15

Studio 4

tickets

5 Jun

20:15

tickets

combi ticket : € 98
Brussels Philharmonic, Boris Giltburg (04.06) + Brussels Philharmonic, Boris Giltburg (05.06) + Boris Giltburg (06.06)

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Witold Lutosławski, Jeux vénitiens
Karol Szymanowski, Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19

artist(s)

Brussels Philharmonic
Boris Giltburg, piano
Kazushi Ono, cond.

A laboratory for ideas

Beethoven used his sonatas as a laboratory for ideas. Written for intimate settings and far removed from the pressures of the concert hall, they offered a safe haven where he could experiment, test, and innovate to his heart's content. His final sonata is the culmination of all those years of pushing boundaries. Beethoven relentlessly challenges the limits of both instrument and performer, opening the door to a higher, mystical world.

Eighty years later, this fusion of a spiritual world and a radical structure inspired Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. He modeled his Second Symphony entirely on the architecture of Beethoven’s Opus 111: a strict diptych that opens dramatically and with great complexity, moving through a lyrical theme to end in a grandly scaled fugue, with ultimate redemption in an overwhelming apotheosis.

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