With the imposing Pacific Ocean as her co-pilot, Kaija Saariaho drove from Los Angeles to San Diego in January 2019. \u201cI felt music literally streaming into my mind,\u201d she recalled; ideas bubbled up for a new piece she simply called Vista.
\nBenjamin Britten portrays Peter Grimes as a raw outsider desperate to escape the suffocating grip of his village. His anxiety and inevitable downfall are mirrored in the turbulent North Sea\u2014not a static backdrop, but a powerful, restless character in its own right.
\nA \u2018symphonic fantasy\u2019 rooted in his beloved Finnish nature: Sibelius defiantly cast his Seventh Symphony as a single, monumental arc. The music flows, falters, and swells\u2014an unbroken stream reflecting the endless Finnish horizon that defined his world.
\nBrussels Philharmonic Beyond The Score
\nBeyond The Score is creation, encounter, and cross-pollination with the wider arts field. More voices. More impulses. And above all: music. More than music.
\nFor this Beyond The Score, the sea flows between the notes. Shifting like the tide, orchestral masterpieces merge with the sonic seascapes of Vera Cavallin and Christophe Albertijn to form a single, seamless wave.
\nThrough her Terrasonica project, Vera Cavallin is building a haunting archive of endangered sounds that captures the fading echoes of our natural world\u2014from animal species to environments at risk of disappearing. \u201cFor this concert, I will create a soundscape in which field recordings and an acoustic instrument reconnect with one another, creating a sonic universe linked to the sea\u2014what it evokes and its frequencies\u2014while also carrying a message about the need to protect the element from which everything originated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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