LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Concertini programme 2024-25
La Monnaie’s chamber music season gives the musicians of our Symphony Orchestra – one of the artistic pillars of our house – the opportunity to enrich their repertoire. In a hushed setting and with intimate instrumental ensembles, they will perform familiar works of music, but also have some wonderful surprises in store for you.
As usual, we will draw a connection with the works in our opera and symphony programmes. In line with our Ring cycle, we will continue the collaboration we began last season with musicologist Stijn Paredis from KU Leuven. Four concertini this season will be devoted to the fin-de-siècle aesthetics and the artistic circles of Les XX and La Libre Esthétique, which gravitated around La Monnaie at the time. Claude Debussy, Vincent d’Indy, Emmanuel Chabrier, François Rasse and Joaquín Turina will all be featured.
The voice will also be very much in evidence. We are delighted to welcome the artists from the La Monnaie Choruses (conducted by Emmanuel Trenque) for two original programmes, one with the women’s chorus and the other with a mixed ensemble. The young singers of the MM Academy will surprise us on several occasions, among others during the traditional Wild Cards and the concert presenting the new Soloists and Laureates. Baritone Werner Van Mechelen and pianist Florestan Bataillie will give a recital in which lieder of Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler resonate with songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. After many years as répétiteur, pianist Inge Spinette will be bidding farewell to La Monnaie. On this occasion, she will be reunited with her faithful singing friends for what promises to be a particularly festive concert.
We will also put the spotlight on the centennial of Gabriel Fauré’s passing and celebrate the 125th birthday of Francis Poulenc, by dedicating some of our concerts to their works. Following on from the operatic performances of our diptych on Claudio Monteverdi, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the musicians of the Cappella Mediterranea ensemble to delve deeper into the baroque chamber music repertoire. Lastly, contemporary music will not be forgotten. We reunite with composers Kris Defoort and Harold Noben – all on the bill of the opera season – in programmes dedicated to our different ensembles.
| 20.12.2024 |
SCHUBERT FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Saténik Khourdoïan (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), Florent Brémond (vla), Sébastien Walnier (vc), Marc Terré Garcia (cb), Orane Bargain (cr), Annelien Van Wauwe (cl), Vahan Khourdoïan (fg) |
Abbreviations vl : Violin |
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| 17.1.2025 Salle Fiocco |
TRIBUTE TO PHILIP JONES GIOVANNI GABRIELI (1557-1612) Manu Mellaerts (tp), Rudy Moercant (tp), Steven Devolder (tp), Pierre-Louis Marquez (tp), NN (cr), Jan Smets (trb), Bram Fournier (trb), Drik Vanmanshoven (trb), Geert De Vos (trb b), Stephan Vanaenrode (tb) |
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| 24.1.2025 |
LISZT / WAGNER / CHOPIN FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886) Femke Sonnen (vl), NN (vc), Yasuko Takahashi (pf) |
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| 31.1.2025 Salle Fiocco |
“LEBENSWANDEL” HUGO WOLF (1860-1903) Werner Van Mechelen (basso baritono), Florestan Bataillie (pf) |
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| 7.2.2025 |
MOZART / HUMMEL WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) |
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| 14.2.2025 |
RIPPER / SCHUMANN JOÃO GUILHERME RIPPER (°1959) Luk Nielandt (hb), Justus Grimm (vc), Abdel Rahman El Bacha (pf) |
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| 21.2.2025 |
PETIT PARIS PAUL GILSON (1865-1942) La Monnaie chamber music ensemble & Yasuko Takahashi (pf) |
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| 28.2.2025 |
NOBEN / KORNGOLD HAROLD NOBEN (°1978) Saténik Khourdoïan (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), Florent Brémond (vla), Sébastien Walnier (vc) |
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| 7.3.2025 |
ZEMLINSKY / MARTINU ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY (1871-1942) Yaeram Park (fl), Luk Nielandt (hb), Alberto Blanco Garcia (cl), Orane Bargain (cr), Alain Cremers (fg), NN (vc), NN (percussion) |
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| 14.3.2025 Salle Fiocco |
BRITTEN / SHOSTAKOVITCH BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1973) La Monnaie string ensemble |
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| 21.3.2025 Salle Malibran |
MUSIQUE DE LA RENAISSANCE ET DE L’ÉPOQUE BAROQUE La Monnaie brass |
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| 28.3.2025 |
SOUS LES ÉTOILES HAROLD NOBEN (°1978) |
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| 4.4.2025 Salle Fiocco |
MISATANGO MARTÍN PALMERI (°1965) Emmanuel Trenque (conductor) |
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| 11.4.2025 |
BAROQUE PROGRAMME Femke Sonnen (vl), e.a. |
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| 18.4.2025 Salle Fiocco |
LE DONNE DI CAVALLI BARBARA STROZZI (1619-1677) Leonardo García Alarcón (harpsichord, organ & direction), Mariana Flores (soprano), Rodrigo Calveyra (recorder & cornetto), Marie Bournisien (hp), Margaux Blanchard (viola da gamba), Monica Pustilnik (archlute & guitar), Quito Gato (theorbo, guitar & drum) |
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| 25.4.2025 |
ORGAN CONCERT Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Benoît Mernier, e.a. Benjamin Prunet (organ), NN (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), NN (vla), NN (vc), Marc Terré Garcia (cb) |
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| 9.5.2025 Salle Fiocco |
CARTE BLANCHE to INGE SPINETTE Vocal programme |
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| 16.5.2025 |
NEW BELGIAN MUSIC FOR BRASS QUINTET La Monnaie brass quintet |
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| 23.5.2025 Salle Fiocco |
WILD CARD MM ACADEMY FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963) Lucas Cortoos (baritono, MM Laureate), La Monnaie chamber music ensemble & Vincent Van Audenhove (pf) |
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| 6.6.2025 |
RASSE & TURINA FRANÇOIS RASSE (1873-1955) Saténik Khourdoïan (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), Florent Brémond (vla), Sébastien Walnier (vc), NN (pf) |
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| 13.6.2025 Salle Fiocco |
AROUND CARMEN La Monnaie bass |
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| 20.6.2025 |
100% FAURÉ GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924) Sylvia Huang (vl), Florent Brémond (vla), Sébastien Walnier (vc), Julien Gernay (pf) |