Brussels Philharmonic | Shostakovich 5 · 25.01.2025 · Flagey

Shostakovich 5

Brussels
Flagey

‘A Soviet artist’s response to just criticism’: that is the subtitle Shostakovich gave his 5th Symphony. But everything about the work is ambiguous: order becomes restlessness, joy is stifled, the harmony suddenly turns shrill. The regime didn’t realize any of this, and yet Shostakovich managed t ...

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PROGRAMME

Jörg Widmann Concerto for Horn (Belgian premiere) (2024)*
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 (1937)

*co-commission Brussels Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra & Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

YOUR CONCERT NIGHT

∙ 15:00 city walk NL/FR (Korei Guided Tours) (info coming soon)
∙ 18:00 doors open
∙ 18:30 lecture: Shostakovich Deconstructed by Florestan Bataillie (EN) [info & tickets]
∙ 19:30 Symfomania: atelier kids 7>12 (NL/FR/EN) [info & tickets]
∙ 19:30 introduction: Sander De Keere (EN)
∙ 20:15 concert (with intermission) [Wolfgang App available]
∙ 22:30 end

PRACTICAL

Flagey, Studio 4 ∙ Place Sainte-Croix, 1050 Ixelleshow to reach the venue

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