

Due to exceptionally high temperatures, MM Tickets will exceptionally be closed on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 July. If you’d like to collect your copy of 18. The Harmony of Human Passions on these days, you can do so at the reception of the La Monnaie Workshops (Rue Léopold 23). We remain reachable by phone (02 229 12 11) between 12:00 and 18:00 and by email at tickets@lamonnaie.be.
CloseBéla Bartók, speaking of Franz Liszt, described ‘... an astonishing audaciousness, in both form and content. This boldness is quite simply the fanatical tendency towards the new, the unusual.’ The audaciousness that Bartók appreciated in the music of his compatriot is equally characteristic of his own style. Two opposite, but related poles: one an extrovert Romantic, ‘inventor’ of the symphonic poem and the most renowned keyboard virtuoso of the 19th century, who was equally at home with intimacy; the other the introverted classicist par excellence, a 20th-century modernist, an inventive wizard with the orchestra with a taste for orchestral explosions. Two piano concertos and two symphonic poems by Liszt and two majestic symphonic works by Bartók are spread over a two-day mini-festival of music by two of Hungary’s most important composers. Alain Altinoglu will be in his element in these masterpieces from the grand repertoire.
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Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances by Frederic Delmotte (in Dutch) & Charles-Henry Boland (in French)
Ticket prices from € 10 to € 46
-30 years old: € 10 / € 25
-15 years old: free, with an adult
20:00
F. Kempf on piano
20:00
S. Trpceski on piano
ConductorALAIN ALTINOGLU
PianoFREDDY KEMPF (11.02.2017)
SIMON TRPCESKI (17.02.2017)
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
ProductionLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Co-presentationBOZAR MUSIC