deFilharmonie - Daniele Callegari

Symphonic music by Luc Brewaeys performed by deFilharmonie at deSingel: the combination goes almost without saying, and that is in itself a success. It illustrates just how much Brewaeys' large-scale symphonies have become part of the canon of Flanders' newest music. It is also with some pride that we announce the first ever performance of Brewaeys' orchestration of Debussy's 'Douze Préludes' for piano. The combination of Debussy's many-layered and adventurous Preludes with Brewaeys' flamboyant and bold orchestral writing style certainly promises more than musical fireworks. The two other works on the programme - how could it be otherwise - are also from the French orchestral repertoire. Ravel's 'Tzigane' - originally written for violin and lutheal piano (a piano that imitates the sounds of the dulcimer), and later orchestrated by Ravel himself - is a concert rhapsody that constantly balances between apparent improvisation and well-considered construction, and between parody and seriousness. Chausson's 'Poême' for violin and orchestra is in fact also a masked construction. Beneath the uppermost semi-improvisational layer lies a strikingly cohesive work composed around a single theme entirely in the spirit of César Franck.