2012-2013 : Let’s Live Music!
The new season is all about connection. Some 300 unmissable concerts will immerse the audience in the very heart of the musical experience. Some of these will also be seeking to connect with other artistic disciplines. As is the case every year, the programme caters to fans of every genre: early music, classical, romantic, modern, and contemporary, as well as jazz, electro, and world music.
Subscriptions BOZAR MUSIC 2012-2013 :
From 19 March: subscription renewalFrom 23 April : changes and/or new subscriptions From 29 May: « à la carte » formula and individual tickets
From 19 March: subscription renewalFrom 23 April : changes and/or new subscriptions From 29 May: « à la carte » formula and individual tickets
Connection, diversity, and interdisciplinarity are the key words for our 2012-2013 season. BOZAR MUSIC will be bringing you the very best performances, interspersed with a series of activities (talks, introductions, interactive meetings, discovery trails, conference debates, etc) about the works and the performers that will take you as close as possible to the aesthetic experience, to a place where performance meets the visual art and meets every musical genre from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
Seven main themes
For the oldest repertoire, there are several main themes running through our programme. The Europe of Humanism and the Renaissance is celebrated, highlighting the values of freedom, pluralism, tolerance, and solidarity that the European Renaissance gave rise to. BOZAR MUSIC explores the major steps in the construction of our identity and looks at the West’s relationship with the world around it. Notable performers on the programme are Doulce Mémoire, knocking on the Gates of Istanbul with the Turkish Kudsi Erguner ensemble (24 September) and Jordi Savall paying tribute to Erasmus with Hespèrion XXI (19 January).
We will also be celebrating La Serenissima, with the Venetian splendour that was created by the history of the Republic and its trade with the Orient. Pride of place is given to Monteverdi, with two concerts led by Rinaldo Alessandrini, in residence at the Centre for Fine Arts (1 January and 4 March).
Another theme will be Watteau and the muses. The exhibition devoted to this great painter of fêtes galantes will be accompanied by a series of concerts recreating the music of his time, thanks to our artist in residence William Christie, one of the curators of the exhibition. A number of events led by great musicians, such as Christophe Rousset at the head of the Talens Lyriques – whose concert will be choreographed by Béatrice Massin (20 March) – and Leonardo García Alarcón at the head of the Agrémens and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur (Namur Chamber Choir) (24 April), will reproduce the musical atmosphere in which Watteau lived.
And finally, there is the public’s extraordinary passion for Bach, which we felt we had to respond to. Bach Lives! therefore pays tribute to the Cantor, with the best specialists: René Jacobs will be bringing us the St Matthew Passion with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (31 August), Philippe Herreweghe will be performing the Christmas Oratorio as well as some cantatas with the Collegium Vocale (20 December and 29 January), Bernard Foccroulle (15 and 16 April), and many more.
As for more recent music, we will be continuing our Debussy retrospective. Krystian Zimerman (23 October) and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (5 December) – in residence – are amongst the pianists who will be performing his works.
We will also be devoting a series of concerts to Schubert. We will be celebrating the Viennese composer with major artists, including Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre (11 September), Sophie Karthäuser (23 February), and the Casals Quartet (20 April).
The Conservatory will be occupied by several former laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, including Denis Kozhukhin (25 September), Ray Chen (13 October), Jan Michiels (5 November), Elisabeth Leonskaya (9 March), and Yossif Ivanov in a duet with Itamar Golan (6 March).
Five residencies
It’s as though it’s raining stars! Five residencies really stand out this season. As mentioned above, William Christie is one of the curators of the exhibition that the Centre for Fine Arts is devoting to Watteau. For this purpose, the conductor calls upon his Arts Florissants to return the music to Watteau’s painting (28 January). He begins his residency with an evening devoted to Charpentier (9 October) and ends it with a new release from the Jardin des Voix (28 March).
Rinaldo Alessandrini meanwhile shows us all of his many talents: he begins his residency with Rolando Villazón at the head of the Kammerorchester Basel (14 September), continues it with “his” Concerto Italiano and the RIAS Kammerchor performing Monteverdi (1 October), performs a harpsichord recital (15 January), and ends with the Concerto Italiano for his final concert (4 March).
It’s as a worthy successor to Bernard Haitink that Mariss Jansons took the head of the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, also in residence with us. He will be leading his orchestra on two occasions (23 September and 31 January) as well as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (27 March).
Pierre-Laurent Aimard will be taking the piano stool and the head of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for a tribute concert to Mozart and Beethoven (17 October), accompanying the baritone Matthias Goerne (26 October) and performing a recital (5 December).
Pianist Nikolai Lugansky will be playing Janáček and Rachmaninov, as well as accompanying violinist Leonidas Kavakos (29 November), playing a recital (13 February), and accompanying the NOB for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 (20 June).
A few highlights
As is the case every year, great voices will also be on the programme, notably Rolando Villazón (14 September) and Cecilia Bartoli (18 November). So will the great classics of the repertoire, with Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov being performed by the principal Belgian orchestras, with top quality soloists including Bertrand Chamayou (7 February) and Ivo Pogorelich (5 April). We will also be giving a very warm welcome to Andrey Boreyko, the new musical director of the National Orchestra of Belgium, who is succeeding Walter Weller. The Russian conductor, who is known for the quality of his programmes, has reserved an important place for the repertoire of his own country, with Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
And, as always, we are working closely with the KlaraFestival, which this year will be knocking on heaven’s door with prestigious orchestras such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (31 August, 7 September, and 8 September) and the Cercle de l’Harmonie which will be performing Mozart’s Le Nozze di Fiagro Mozart (5 September). We will also be making room for the young, with our traditional Rising Stars who will be visiting the international stages of each of the members of the ECHO network. And, of course, there is our Music and Poetry series, which will be celebrating the coming together of words and music, in true interdisciplinary style.
Belgian and international orchestras
Many conductors, soloists, and prestigious international orchestras await you. The Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, accompanied by the RIAS Kammerchor, conducted by René Jacobs, will be performing The Magic Flute (19 November). The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by Yuri Temirnakov himself for a programme centred on Prokofiev and Brahms (20 November). The Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Leif Ove Andsnes will be performing a concert devoted to Bartók and Beethoven (21 November). For this occasion, the pianist will be performing two of Beethoven’s piano concertos, the first instalment of a series of the complete piano concertos that will run through several seasons. Antonio Pappano will be back with his Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. On the menu: Verdi and Schumann (24 November). Iván Fischer will also be returning with his Budapest Festival Orchestra, notably performing Liszt’s Faust Symphony (6 March). The Wiener Symphoniker, conducted by Zubin Mehta, will be performing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 (11 March). Charlotte Rampling and John Eliot Gardiner, at the head of the London Symphony Orchestra, undaunted, tackle Stravinski’s Oedipus rex (22 April), while Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest for the centenary of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (15 May).
The Belgian orchestras distinguish themselves with programmes that, as well as the time-honoured repertoire, include some new discoveries. These include DeFilharmonie with De Boeck’s Violin Concerto (15 November), the National Orchestra of Belgium with the world premiere of Victor Kissine’s Violin Concerto, performed by Gidon Kremer (14 December), the Brussels Philharmonic with Le Pacte des Onze by their own musical director, Michel Tabachnik, also a world premiere (15 December), and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège with Gulda’s Cello Concerto (10 January). Meanwhile, Sandrine Piau finds herself back with her accomplice Jos van Immerseel at the head of the Anima Eterna Brugge, for some of Mozart’s arias (6 May).
Chamber orchestras & chamber music
Chamber orchestras and chamber music are equally well represented with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, accompanied by Maria João Pires, which devotes itself to Mozart (4 November), the Camerata Salzburg for a programme dedicated to the First Viennese School (23 January), and several renowned quartets, including the Borodin Quartet performing the complete quartets of Brahms and Tchaikovsky (10 October, 26 January, and 22 May), and the Hagen Quartett (18 April). Elsewhere, eminent musicians join forces, like Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Alexander Melnikov (3 October), Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Nicholas Angelich (1 December), or the Trio Talweg accompanied by Sébastien Walnier, winner of the Prix de l’Union de la presse musicale belge (Belgian Music Press Award) (14 January).
There will also be numerous recitals at the Centre for Fine Arts: Christian Tetzlaff on violin and Leif Ove Andsnes on piano (12 December), Hilary Hahn on violin (12 January), Mitsuko Uchida on piano (22 January), and Mischa Maisky on cello with her daughter Lily on piano (13 March).
Music of the past and the present, from here and from elsewhere
As well as the traditional European repertoire, BOZAR MUSIC’s programme also opens the stage to all kinds of music. Electronic music is always featured, with the BOZAR ELECTRONIC ARTS WEEK-END, which offers the best of international electro, accompanied by digital art, installations, and audiovisual performances (21 and 22 September) and BOZAR NIGHT, which follows a nocturnal visit to the exhibitions at the Centre for Fine Arts, with a party until the early hours with the best of today’s DJs (23 November and 27 April).
Jazz is also alive and kicking with Diana Krall, who will set the Centre alight with her contralto voice (29 October) and the Vijay Iyer Trio, who are offering an evening centred around their new album, eagerly awaited since the famous "Historicity". Joshua Redman, leader of an entire generation of saxophonists and travelling companion of Brad Mehldau, is returning with his famous James Farm quartet, while the maestro of lyrical trumpet, Enrico Rava, is accompanied by young turks from his Tribe (15 January). John Hebert, a major discovery of the double bass, prepares a very personal tribute to Charles Mingus with his new quintet made up of Tim Berne, Fred Hersch, and other big names of contemporary jazz (15 April).
Our tour of the world music begins with Portuguese fado: Katia Guerreiro, passionate performer of the great Lusophone songbook (25 November), the Quintetto Lisboa, who brought new life to the genre (1 February), and Ana Moura, who has established herself as a new leading figure in fado (10 May). Then we take a small detour to the South, with Fatoumata Diawara, who mixes musical traditions of the Malian region of Wassalou with elements of blues and jazz (5 September). Heading east, then, we have the 7th edition of the Balkan Trafik Festival, which brings together the best of Balkan music (18-21 April). Finally, we head towards the Muslim world, with a new edition of Sufi Night (28-29 September). This year, our oriental journey takes us through tarab. A key concept in Arab music, tarab seeks to reach spiritual heights through emotion and poetry. Oum Kalthoum was one of its greatest representatives. Amal Maher will be paying tribute to her with an orchestra of 30 musicians (6 October). Arab modernity is represented by the Lebanese oud player Marcel Khalifé, pioneer of the Arab spring (17 November). An evening of classical Iraqi maqâm also provides a different perspective (2 February). And finally the Parfums Ottomans project brings together the best musicians from Alep (Syria) and Istanbul (Turkey) to play music from the Arabo-Turkish court of the ottoman era (18 April).
BOZAR: 2012-2013 : Let’s Live Music!
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