SEASON 2017–2018 IN A NUTSHELL
for families
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© Photos: Emilie Vercruysse
FOR FAMILIES € 6 (for -26 years) € 12 (for adults)
04 NOV 2017
04 NOV 2017
17 DEC 2017
17 & 18 FEB 2018
CALENDER AUGUST 2017 MAfestival 2017
La Divina Commedia
Fri
04.08.2017 - 13.08.2017 04.08.2017
20.00
Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón
Monteverdi’s Orfeo
Sat
05.08.2017
20.00
B’Rock
La casa del diavolo
Tue
08.08.2017
11.30
Jury Jam
Telemann & co
Wed
09.08.2017
18.00
Finale Internationale Wedstrijd
Melodie-instrumenten
Thu
10.08.2017
11.30
Katrien Kolenberg
Cosmic Sounds
Fri
11.08.2017
20.00
Muziektheater Transparant
Earth Diver
Sat
12.08.2017
20.00
Hofkapelle München & Vocalconsort Berlin
C.P.E. Bach. Die Auferstehung
SEPTEMBER 2017 Sat
09.09.2017
20.00
Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw
Maria João Pires
Sat
16.09.2017
20.00
Alicja Gescinska, Emilie Lauwers en Tmesis
Metamorfose in muziek, filosofie en beeldende kunst
Sun
17.09.2017
10.00
Concertgebouw Circuit
Openingsfeest
Fri
22.09.2017
20.00
deFilharmonie & Philippe Herreweghe
Brahms & Schumann
Wed
27.09.2017
20.00
Dansen op polyfonie
Lecture-performance door Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau
Thu
28.09.2017
20.00
Miklós Perényi & Dénes Várjon
Brahms & Kurtág
Sat
30.09.2017
20.00
Mer-
Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau / ECCE
OCTOBER 2017
Glimp Oorkaan Toddlers discover how colour transforms into sounds and images.
FROM 2 TO 4 YEARS
Salon Salagon In the midst of Antonín Dvořák’s string sextet
D’à côté Christian Rizzo / ICI – CCN Montpellier
A fairy-tale world, brought to life on the spot by an illustrator and four musicians.
Bizarre dream creatures enchant young and old.
FROM 6 TO 8 YEARS
9 YEARS AND OLDER
25 FEB 2018
I remember a fun concert, with a rocket and crazy little men. What else was super? The tattoo I got on my arm at the KRIKRAK festival. — Andreas Barbier,
9-12 APR 2018
Caban Theater De Spiegel Playing, building and discovering in a sound maze with live music. FROM 3 MONTHS TO 3 YEARS
21 APR 2018
Sun
01.10.2017
11.00
Lees meer!
Literatuurgesprek op zondag
Thu
05.10.2017
19.30
Mozart. Così fan tutte
Le Concert d’Astrée
Thu
05.10.2017
20.00
Pecha Kucha-architectuuravond
Inspirerende metamorfoses in Brugge
Sat
07.10.2017
20.00
Brussels Philharmonic & Gautier Capuçon
Lalo, Ravel & Turnage
Sun
08.10.2017
15.00
Felix & Fauve Vermeirsch
Debussy, Stravinsky, Prokofiev & Vermeirsch
Wed
11.10.2017
20.00
Abdel Rahman El Bacha
Chopin
Fri
13.10.2017
20.00
Salon Libeer
Gatto speelt Beethovens vioolsonates
Topstukweek Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine
18.10.2017 - 21.10.2017 Wed
18.10.2017
20.00
Waar te beginnen?
Lezing over Monteverdi’s Mariavespers
Thu
19.10.2017
19.00
Peripheral Thinking
Lecture-performance door William Kentridge
Fri
20.10.2017
20.00
Anima Eterna Brugge
Monteverdi’s grootste hits
Sat
21.10.2017
10.30
450 jaar Monteverdi. De Mariavespers
Luistercursus
Sat
21.10.2017
17.00
Monteverdi, l’inventeur de l’opéra
Documentaire
Sat
21.10.2017
20.00
Collegium Vocale Gent
Monteverdi’s Mariavespers
Tue
24.10.2017
14.00
Van postmoderne dans uit de VS naar hedendaagse dans in Vlaanderen Open Universiteit
Tue
24.10.2017
20.00
Bach. Cellosuiten (werktitel)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jean-Guihen Queyras / Rosas
Thu
26.10.2017
19.30
CLUB Surround
Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen
Thu
26.10.2017
21.00
CLUB Surround
Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen
Sat
28.10.2017
10.30
Iedereen Klassiek
Hét feest van de klassieke muziek
NOVEMBER 2017 02.11.2017 - 05.11.2017
9 KOPERGIETERY & Cas Public Dance performance for children, to Beethoven's masterpiece.
The House of Crazy Tunes Musical exploratory expedition through the Concertgebouw Super Mario and the children solve the Ding Dong mystery.
MOLE Belgian National Orchestra Interactive concert, with music by Dirk Brossé and illustrations by Carll Cneut (€ 7.5 for -26 years / € 15 for adults)
9 YEARS AND OLDER
6 YEARS AND OLDER
5 YEARS AND OLDER
KRIKRAK
Kunstkrakers in de stad
Thu
02.11.2017
14.00
1, 2, 3 dans!
Dansworkshop
Fri
03.11.2017
14.00
De lichamelijkheid van Jan Fabre
Open Universiteit
Fri
03.11.2017
20.00
Belgian Rules / Belgium Rules
Jan Fabre & Troubleyn
Sat
04.11.2017
10.00, 11.30 & 16.00
Glimp
Oorkaan
Sat
04.11.2017
15.00
Salon Salagon
Tussen het strijksextet van Antonín Dvořák
Sat
04.11.2017
20.00
Salagon Quartett
Schubert & Dvořák
Sun
05.11.2017
10.00
Pimp je portret
Workshop foto’s bewerken voor kinderen
Sun
05.11.2017
15.00
Erik Bosgraaf & Francesco Corti
Telemann. Blokfluitsonates
Tue
07.11.2017
14.00
Het vocale oeuvre van Bach
Luistercursus
Topstukweek Benjamin Britten
War Requiem
08.11.2017 - 11.11.2017 Wed
08.11.2017
20.00
Past & present
Debat over WO I
Fri
10.11.2017
20.00
Bochumer Symphoniker
Britten. War Requiem
Fri
10.11.2017
22.00
FRONT
©urated by Soundcast
Sat
11.11.2017
20.00
Bochumer Symphoniker
Britten. War Requiem
Beat it!
Percussiefestival zonder grenzen
12.11.2017 - 19.11.2017 Sun
12.11.2017
15.00
Stockhausens Zyklus
Lecture-performance door Tom De Cock
Tue
14.11.2017
14.00
Het vocale oeuvre van Bach
Luistercursus
Wed
15.11.2017
20.00
KASK & Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent
Erewhon. Symfonie voor percussie en visuals
Thu
16.11.2017
20.00
Medium & Losari Maskerdans
Rianto & Nani Topeng Losari Cirebon
Fri
17.11.2017
20.00
Beat that!
Percussie versus elektronica
Sat
18.11.2017
20.00
deFilharmonie & Martin Grubinger
Bernstein, Prokofiev, Eötvös & Tan Dun
8 years old
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festivals
contents
EXPERIENCE THE METAMORPHOSIS
FESTIVALS P.03 WHAT TO CHOOSE? P.06 MASTERPIECE WEEKS P.08 RESIDENT ARTISTS P.010 FOR FAMILIES P.012 CALENDAR P.013 Coordination and final editing Lotte De Coene Editorial staff Jan De Moor, Albert Edelman, Samme Raeymaekers, Jeroen Vanacker, Bert Vanlaere Design skinn branding agency Printing Roularta Printing Cover © Emilie Lauwers / architecture: © Filip Dujardin This magazine is a publication of Concertgebouw Brugge vzw, ’t Zand 34, 8000 Bruges, +32 50 47 69 99, publisher Katrien Van Eeckhoutte Concertgebouw collects audience data when tickets are booked and when information is requested. This data is used to keep our audience informed about our programme and other activities. In very exceptional cases, it may be passed on to third parties, who may use it for scientific or marketing purposes. If you do not wish this to happen, please inform us. The management of address details is in accordance with the law of 8 December, 1992, governing the protection of personal data.
FESTIVALS During the 2017-2018 season – and what else would you expect with ‘Metamorphosis’ as its theme – you’ll see the Concertgebouw transformed. We’ll surprise and delight you with our brand-new polyphony festival Gold and with new themes for our highly successful December Dance Festival, Bach Academy Bruges, MAfestival and Budapest Festival. But we also want to astound you with new creations, during Beat It!, for instance, and during Opera21, which this season is visiting Bruges for the very first time.
12 — 19 Nov 2017
BEAT IT! Percussion festival without limits 04 — 13 Aug 2017
MA — FESTIVAL
Let's get impressed!
La Divina Commedia
‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!’ That’s the ominous inscription above the gates of hell in La Divina Commedia. That masterpiece, by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) tells the story of an imaginary journey through the afterlife. In a hundred cantos, Dante travels through the three realms of the dead: Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). MAfestival 2017 follows in his footsteps, for a musical pilgrimage from Hades to Heaven. organisation: MAfestival Brugge copresentation: Concertgebouw Brugge
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We are all born blind, but we can hear long before we are born. In the womb we are immersed in a continuous bath of sound - a sonorous continuum - dominated by our mother’s voice and especially by her powerful heartbeat. In Beat it! we go back to our earliest musical memories for six days, as percussion and beats reveal the link between old and new music and between Western and non-European music and dance. Iconic works by Stockhausen and Dufourt, percussion grand masters such as Keiko Abe and Martin Grubinger, and brand-new works by Verstockt and Henderickx are the beating heart of this percussion festival.
festivals
festivals
24 — 28 Jan 2018
16 — 19 May 2018
BACH ACADEMY BRUGGE
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL Mahler's monuments
Bach rearranged
07 — 17 Dec 2017
DECEMBER DANCE 17 Curated by Christian Rizzo
27 — 28 Apr 2018
OPERA 21
© Rune Guneriussen
With, among others, the cream of the French dance world
© Marc Coudrais
Artistic multitalent Christian Rizzo is a real all-rounder. Starting as a rock musician and fashion designer, he went on to dance with big names such as Mathilde Monnier and Vera Montero. But it is as a choreographer that he has really made his mark. Since 2015 he has been Artistic Director of the Institut Chorégraphique International – Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (ICI-CCN), the leading choreographic centre in France. This December Dance is curated by Christian Rizzo. Each of the chosen artists either complements his vision of bodies in transformation or supplements it with additional questions. This year’s December Dance is guaranteed to be a trip full of metamorphoses, both within and beyond the boundaries of dance.
In a world with no radios, CDs or streaming, music was often heard just once. Every performance was an almost heartrending luxury. It’s therefore only logical that hardpressed composers liked to recycle their hits. In this eighth Bach Academy Bruges, nothing is what it seems. Listen to how Bach edits and rearranges music by himself and by others, and how adventurous musicians have drawn inspiration from the Thomas Cantor's heritage. A surprising five-day Bach rearrangement! TIP: Experience Bach differently: in dance, in jazz, or in real depth, during an open rehearsal, listening course or music lesson.
Music theatre festival
Enjoy the stories of Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid in opera
Since the late Middle Ages, Bruges has sparkled on the world stage, as a city in which art and culture can be experienced like nowhere else, and understood in the context in which they originated. Over the centuries that sparkle has dulled a little, but during Gold it is buffed back to glory by the warm hands of Musea Brugge and the Concertgebouw.
07 — 13 May 2018
GOLD Bruges voices from the Renaissance
— Ruud Priem, Chief Conservator Hospitaalmuseum
Opera21 lets you feel the pulse of the latest music theatre. From this sixth edition onward, Opera21 will be an annual festival, one year in Antwerp, the next in Ghent and Bruges. More than ever, it will be an international spawning ground that widens the definition of music theatre: from opera to hybrid scenic experiments, installations, performances and visual concerts. For the 2018 edition, Concertgebouw Brugge, KAAP, the Bijloke, NTGent, the Handelbeurs Concert Hall and Opera Gent will be throwing open their doors to show the world how wonderful music theatre is.
A new festival for Bruges - city of music and stories - interconnects the best of Bruges’s Golden Age: its fascinating history, its architectural heritage, its art treasures and above all its music, which for centuries set the tone from Scandinavia to the tip of Italy, from Britain to Poland. This first edition of the festival, programmed to coincide with the annual Procession of the Holy Blood, tells the story of Bruges fur trader and city official Donaas de Moor, the man commemorated by Jacob Obrecht’s remarkable Missa de Sancto Donatiano. TIP: Tread in the footsteps of history during the Obrecht or Donaas walk.
In collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Brugge www.decemberdance.be
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In next to no time ‘founding father’ Iván Fischer conducted his Budapest Festival Orchestra into the world top ten. Although these Hungarian musicians are equally at home in all styles, it was mainly in the lateRomantic and early-Modern repertoire that they won their spurs. In this fifth edition of the Budapest Festival, the music of Gustav Mahler is central. Mahler is a composer with whom Fischer has an exceptional bond, as is witnessed by his awardwinning recordings of some of Mahler’s symphonies. Mahler is a master of musical transformation. Just listen to the metamorphosis the poems of Des Knaben Wunderhorn undergo! In his hands simple songs that reflect the German national character become sublime symphonic creations that express the tragedy and the dark side of human existence. Iván Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra glitter in these four resounding reflections on the meaning of being human.
what to choose?
Choosing is losing, but it can also mean winning, certainly with these tips! Follow your heart or your head to a performance that will undoubtedly reverberate for a long time.
what to choose?
BUTTERFLIES
FROM THE ROOFTOPS
THU 19 APR 2018 Swedish Chamber Orchestra Isabelle Faust plays Sibelius
HAMMER
INSTRUMENT
WED 11 OCT 2017 Abdel Rahman El Bacha Chopin
FRI 22 DEC 2017 Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón Christmas Concert. Carmina Latina
SAT 09 SEP 2017 Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw Maria João Pires SAT 25 NOV 2017 Hallé Orchestra & Sir Mark Elder Sabine Meyer plays Mozart
IN LOVE BOWED STRING
ROAR WITH LAUGHTER
SAT 20 JAN 2018 Quatuor Zaïde & Anneleen Lenaerts French impressionism
MINI
STAR
SAT 04 NOV 2017 Salagon Quartett Schubert & Dvořák
SAT 18 NOV 2017 deFilharmonie & Martin Grubinger Bernstein, Prokofiev, Eötvös & Tan Dun
SONG
CHEERFUL SAT 26 MAY 2018 Le Concert Spirituel Vivaldi. Gloria
WED 29 NOV 2017 The Sixteen Et exultavit spiritum meum
MAXI
LAUGH
BEGINNER SMILE MUSICAL INTERPLAY ZA 09 DEC 2017 Second Detail / TURNING_motion sickness version Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
SILENT GRIEF HEART
DO 28 SEP 2017 Miklós Perényi & Dénes Várjon Brahms & Kurtág
THU 10 MAY 2018 The Tallis Scholars Obrecht. Missa de Sancto Donatiano
WHAT TO CHOOSE?
THU 14 DEC 2017 Last Work Ohad Naharin & Batsheva Dance Company THU 24 MAY 2018 Betroffenheit Kidd Pivot / Crystal Pite & Electric Company Theatre / Jonathon Young
FRI 23 MAR 2018 Anima Eterna Brugge Strauss. Till Eulenspiegel
CHAMBER MUSIC
SAT 10 MAR 2018 Vox Luminis & L'Achéron Stabat Mater
HYSTERICAL SCREAMING
ORCHESTRA
HEAD
THU 15 MAR 2018 Fauré Quartett Rachmaninov, Schumann & Mussorgsky
VETERAN
FRI 02 MAR 2018 Metamorphoses Ferrabosco, Strauss & Cage
TEAR WALLOW
SURPRISING
FAMILIAR
METAL SAT 07 OCT 2017 Brussels Philharmonic & Gautier Capuçon Lalo, Ravel & Turnage
COMFORTING
YOUNG TALENT
STRING
PROVEN
PILLS
TALK
FRI 18 MAY 2018 Budapest Festival Orchestra Mahler. Das Lied von der Erde
SAT 27 JAN 2018 Oxalys & Dietrich Henschel Schemelli's Gesangbuch
FRI 03 NOV 2017 Belgian Rules / Belgium Rules Jan Fabre & Troubleyn
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FRI 27 APR 2018 L'Inconnue de la Seine LOD muziektheater
THU 19 OCT 2017 Peripheral Thinking Lecture-performance by William Kentridge
SUN 08 OCT 2017 Felix & Fauve Vermeirsch Debussy, Stravinsky, Prokofiev & Vermeirsch
SAT 14 APR 2018 Sutra / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Sadler's Wells (Londen)
SAT 10 FEB 2018 B’Rock & Dmitry Sinkovsky Vivaldi's Four Seasons TUE 24 OCT 2017 Bach. Cello suites (working title) Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, JeanGuihen Queyras / Rosas
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masterpiece weeks
MASTER PIECE WEEKS
masterpiece weeks
08 — 11 Nov 2017
22 — 25 Feb 2018
WAR REQUIEM
SYMFONIE NO. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven
Benjamin Britten
www.concertgebouw.be/topstuk
Five different Masterpieces from five different centuries, five Masterpieces of musical history. We invite you to expand your musical knowledge – or to experience the music differently – during a variety of activities. And all of this will be topped off with a top-level performance of the Masterpiece.
18 — 21 Oct 2017
VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE Claudio Monteverdi
• composed in 1610 in Mantua • for 10 voices and a variety of instruments
07 — 12 May 2018 • British pacifist Benjamin Britten composed the work in 1961-62 • for the premiere, Britten deliberately chose a Russian, a British and a German soloist
Johann Sebastian Bach
• premiered in a concert that included the overture Die Weihe des Hauses and Kyrie, Credo and Agnus Dei from the Missa solemnis, and was conducted by
• the first time a composer included voices in a symphony
• in 1967, exactly fifty years after the battle of Passchendaele, Britten conducted the War Requiem in Ieper, in the presence of King Boudewijn and Queen Fabiola
• milestone and touchstone, as a result of which even the number 9 took on a deeply symbolic meaning for later composers
• moving solos that touch the heart
Rosas once danced to Monteverdi. It was love at first hearing. Ever since then, his music has been pure pop to me. — Yves De Bruyckere, production manager Concertgebouw
MISSA DE SANCTO DONATIANO Jacob Obrecht
a totally deaf Beethoven • in 1793 Beethoven decided to set Schillers Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) to music. He made his first two attempts in 1798 and 1812
• the text was traditionally sung during Sunday afternoon Vespers. An earlier recorder version was performed around Christmas 1723, when Bach had just arrived in Leipzig • the famous version in D major dates from when Bach was cantor of Leipzig’s Thomaskirche
• Monteverdi transforms an ‘old-fashioned’ style into the most modern music
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MAGNIFICAT
• enthusiastically begun in 1822, completed in 1824
• traditional Mass texts and poems by ‘war poet’ Wilfred Owen are set to its music • after the premiere, at Britten’s request, the work was not applauded for an immense line-up: soprano, • tenor en baritone, choir, boys choir, organ, orchestra and chamber orchestra
• virtuosic interplay of voices and instruments, brimming with variety
• dedicated to Pope Paul V with the (unsuccessful) aim of securing future employment • a work full of quotes, including hits, such as the opening of Orfeo and the hymn Ave maris stella
29 Nov — 02 Dec 2017
• for full orchestra, including flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets and timpani, a fivevoice vocal ensemble and soloists • compact arias, rapid alternations and surprising effects are reminiscent of Bach's early cantatas
Bach’s Magnificat is undoubtedly one of my favourite works. With only the Latin text, Bach carries the listener smoothly from one emotion to another, purely by the setting. Both choir and soloists are raised up and carried along by this sparkling, fiery musical gem. — Pieter Depraetere, 31 years old, countertenor and Bach fanatic
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• composed between 1485 and 1487 in the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance • commissioned by Adriana de Moor, to be sung annually at the tomb of her husband Donaas in Sint-Jakobskerk • Obrecht incorporated five songs – one of which was in Dutch – into the various movements of the Mass • in 1487, or a year later, the work was already copied in Rome • St. Donatian (Donaas) Bruges’s patron saint, is depicted in paintings by Van Eyck, Gossaert and the anonymous ‘Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’.
resident artists
resident artists
RESIDENT ARTISTS
ANIMA ETERNA BRUGGE Anima Eterna Brugge was founded in 1987 as a living laboratory for research into Baroque music. Over the next 30 years – half of them spent as Concertgebouw residents – that small string ensemble evolved into fully-fledged symphony orchestra, always playing the appropriate period instruments. © David Samyn
“The audience still seem to be very hungry for more.”
VOX LUMINIS
“The music is often our main source of inspiration.”
© David Samyn
ECCE Choreographers Claire Croizé and Etienne Guilloteau work individually, but they are also involved in each other's creations. In 2017 they founded their own dance company, ECCE, and starting this season they will be resident Concertgebouw artists. ‘We mirror ourselves on each other. Besides that, the music is often our main source of inspiration.’
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NADAR ENSEMBLE Nadar Ensemble is synonymous with a multidisciplinary and adventurous spirit. Their performances are a fusion of music, video and technology and can take the form of concert, performance or installation ... or a mix of all three.
“It was time we had a real home.’’ “A loyal and balanced partnership.”
© Hugo Glendinning
Since they formed in 2004, Vox Luminis have grown to become one of the leading early music ensembles. They are now regular guests on all the major European, Asian and US stages. ‘It was time we had a real home,’ says artistic leader Lionel Meunier. ‘We’d already performed in Bruges several times and on each occasion we were warmly received by both the audience and the Concertgebouw team.’
ROSAS Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is both dancer and choreographer. As artistic director of the dance company Rosas, she has created a sizeable body of work, which uses musical structures and scores from different eras, from early music, to contemporary, to pop. Since 2009, the Concertgebouw has supported Rosas as a coproducer.
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© David Samyn
From 2017-2018, the Concertgebouw will have three new resident artists, alongside familiar faces Anima Eterna Brugge and Rosas. Time for an introduction.
© Pressiana
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FROM SEPTEMBER 17!
A tour triggered by art and architecture. From September 2017 the Concertgebouw will also be opening its doors and revealing its secrets
remarkable contemporary architecture and be impressed by the famous acoustics. Feast your
during the daytime. Follow our surprise-filled, interactive visitors’ trail and discover the Concertgebouw’s hidden treasures. Explore the
eyes on the art collection, or make your own sound art. You also get a unique chance to peep behind the scenes of a concert hall.
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