Palais des Beaux-Arts, © Photo: Yannick Sas The Cleveland Orchestra, Welser‐Möst & Schultz
Brussels, Palais des Beaux‐Arts — Henry le Boeuf Hall
About the Event
For over a century, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra has been ranked among the five great American orchestras. Austrian conductor Franz Welser‐Möst brings the orchestra back to Bozar ten years after its last visit. This time, they will perform Franz Liszt’s symphonic poem “Orpheus,” a symbol of music’s immense power. According to Brahms, one must not be deceived by the pastoral atmosphere of his Second Symphony, for it belies the melancholic tone of this 1877 work. Weltschmerz pervades through the trombones and timpani. South African soprano Golda Schultz also senses the gloom hidden in Richard Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder, one of his final compositions. Death casts a shadow over the piece: “Ist dies etwa der Tod?”
Address
Palais des Beaux‐Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, Brussels, Belgium — Google Maps
