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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.

18.4.2025
Salle Fiocco

LE DONNE DI CAVALLI

FRANCESCO CAVALLI (1602-1676)
« Mira questi due lumi », from Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639)
ANTONIA BEMBO (c. 1640- c.1720)
« M’ingannasti in verità », from Produzioni armoniche consacrate a Luigi XIV (c. 1700)
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
« Dimmi, Amor, che farò », from L’Oristeo (1651)
BIAGIO MARINI (1594-1663)
La Romanesca, op.3 (1620)
BARBARA STROZZI (1619-1677)
Lagrime mie, op.7 n°4 (1659)
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
« Sinfonia della Notte », from L’Egisto (1643)
BARBARA STROZZI
Che si può fare, op.8 (1664)
TARQUINIO MERULA (1595-1665)
Aria sopra la cieccona, op.12 (1637)
BARBARA STROZZI
L’amante segreto, op.2 n°16 (1651)
È pazzo il mio core, op.8 (1664)
DARIO CASTELLO (1602-1631)
« Sonata seconda a soprano solo », from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo (1629)
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
« E vuol dunque Ciprigna », from Ercole Amante (1662)

Mariana Flores (soprano)
Cappella Mediterranea :
Leonardo García Alarcón (direction musicale, clavecin & orgue), Teodoro Baù (viole de gambe),  Rodrigo Calveyra (flûtes à bec & cornet),  Marc Wolff (archiluth),  Quito Gato (théorbe & guitare baroque), Marina Bonetti (hp)

Abbreviations

vl : Violin
vla : Viola
vc : Cello
cb : Double bass
fl : Flute
hb : Oboe
cl : Clarinet
fg : Bassoon
cr : Horn
tp : Trumpet
trb : Trombone
trb b : Bass trombone
tb : Tuba
perc : Percussion
pf : Piano
hp : Harp

25.4.2025

ORGAN CONCERT

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707)
Präludium in g, BuxWV 149
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot, BWV 678
Sicilienne, BWV 1053 from de Concerto in F per Oboe e archi BWV1053R  
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Kirchensonate in A-Dur für 2 Violinen, Bass und Orgel, KV 225
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Concerto in d, BWV 1052

Benjamin Prunet (orgue), Sylvia Huang (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), Celia Roser (vla), Corinna Lardin (vc), Marc Terré Garcia (cb)

9.5.2025
Salle Fiocco

CARTE BLANCHE TO INGE SPINETTE
"Life, love and leave of a repetitor" (1992-2024)

GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)
Duetto buffo di due gatti (1825)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
“Ich bin die erste Sängerin”, from Schauspieldirektor, K.486 (1786)
EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907)
Zur Rosenzeit, op.48 n°5 (1889)
Ein Traum, op.48 n°6 (1889)
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL (1685-1759)
“Endless pleasure”, from Semele, HWV 58 (1743)
JACQUES OFFENBACH (1819-1880)
« Je suis grise », from La Périchole (1868)
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI (1846-1916)
Partir c'est mourir un peu (1898)
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Morgen !, op.27 n°4 (1894)
HUGO WOLF (1860-1903)
Blumengruss, from Goethe Lieder n°24 (1888)
Phänomen, from Goethe Lieder n°32 (1888-9)
JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825-1899)
“Ein Souper heut uns winkt”, from Die Fledermaus (1874)

e.a.

Hendrickje Van Kerckhove (soprano), Ilse Eerens (soprano), Lore Binon (soprano), Yves Saelens (tenor), Jan Michiels (pf), Inge Spinette (pf)

16.5.2025

NEW BELGIAN MUSIC FOR BRASS QUINTET

WIM BEX (°1977)
Beyound Boundaries (2014)
ERIK DESIMPELAERE (°1990)
Reflections
JAN HADERMANN (°1952)
Faits Divers (1997)

La Monnaie brass quintet

23.5.2025
Salle Fiocco

WILD CARD MM ACADEMY

FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963)
Rapsodie nègre (1917)
Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée (1919)
Trio pour piano, hautbois et basson, op.43 (1926)
Le Bal masqué (1932)

Lucas Cortoos (baritono, MM Laureate), La Monnaie chamber music ensemble & Vincent Van Audenhove (pf)

6.6.2025

RASSE & TURINA

FRANÇOIS RASSE (1873-1955)
Trio en si mineur pour piano, violon et violoncelle, op.16 (1897)
JOAQUÍN TURINA (1882-1949)
Piano Quintet, op.1 (1908)

Saténik Khourdoïan (vl), Noémi Tiercet (vl), Sébastien Walnier (vc), NN (pf)

13.6.2025
Salle Fiocco

AROUND CARMEN

PAUL DUKAS (1865-1935)
Fanfare pour précéder La Péri (1912)
JOSEPH CANTELOUBE (1879-1957) / arr. STEVEN VERHAERT (°1969)
« La Delaïsado », from Chants d’Auvergne (1923)
GEORGES BIZET (1838-1875) / arr. GEERT DE VOS (°1981) from Suites Carmen n°1 & 2 (1882 & 1887)
- Aragonaise
- Les Dragons d’Alcala
- Habanera
- La Garde Montante
- Danse Bohème
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Pavane, op.50 (1887)
FRANZ VON SUPPÉ (1819-1895)
« Ouvertüre », from Leichte Kavallerie (1866)

La Monnaie bass

20.6.2025

100% FAURÉ

GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Barcarolle n°1, op.26 (1881)
Trois romances sans paroles, op.17 (1863)
Élégie, op.24 (1880)
Quatuor avec piano n°1, op.15 (1876-1879 / 1883)

Sylvia Huang (vl), Florent Brémond (vla), Sébastien Walnier (vc), Julien Gernay (pf)