The Basel Sinfonietta gives concerts in renowned music centers in Antwerp and Ghent
On November 30th and December 1st, the orchestra will embark on its first-ever tour of Belgium, performing at two of the country's most prestigious music venues: the deSingel International Arts Centre in Antwerp and the De Bijloke Music Centre in Ghent. Recent photographic impressions from the Belgian tour can be viewed on the orchestra's social media platforms.
As part of their current tour through Belgian music centers, the Basel Sinfonietta will present music ranging from polyphonic parody to the bursting sounds of a crashing grand piano on November 30th at the DeSingel International Arts Centre in Antwerp and on December 1st at the De Bijloke Music Centre in Ghent.
The concerts are under the direction of Principal Conductor Baldur Brönnimann and include the renewed collaboration with Nicolas Hodges, one of the most renowned pianists in the field of contemporary music.
With «San Francisco Polyphony», the Austro-Hungarian composer György Ligeti allows individual voices to be heard in his characteristic micropolyphony.
Swiss composer Mauro Hertig's "Losing the Red Queen's Race" presents the orchestra with a game that cannot be won. It's a musical parody of the Red Queen hypothesis, which posits that all organisms are subject to evolutionary pressure.
In his orchestral work "The Stations of the Sun", the British composer Julian Anderson takes the changing position of the sun throughout the day and the seasons as a starting point for music that takes on its own form in the course of its performance and becomes increasingly incomprehensible and ambiguous.
And then a grand piano falls from the sky! The impact causes the instrument to shatter and break, captured in image and sound. This is all part of the concept of Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen and his "Piano Concerto".
Current photographic impressions of the Belgium tour can be accessed on the Basel Sinfonietta's social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
