Rhythmic frenzy, melodies from pagan Russia and sacrificial rites: all the ingredients of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring combine to turn this masterpiece into the biggest scandal in the history of mu...

Come and experience the incredible phenomenon of “symphonic cinema”, in which symphonic music is combined with the screening of The Firebird (2014), Dutch director Lucas van Woerkum’s first feature-le...

Elim Chan is the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra’s new chief conductor, and also the youngest in its history! In the company of violin virtuoso Frank Peter Zimmermann, she will lead the orchestra through t...

Gustav Mahler composed his dark and tragic Symphony No. 6 at the very height of his career. It is a musical self-portrait in which he appears to predict the blows life would have in store for him: the...

In addition to being a major contemporary musician, English pianist Paul Lewis is a friend of Ghent-based conductor Philippe Herreweghe, both of whom will be on our stage for a concerto, Mozart’s wond...

A favourite work of Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem is not a requiem in the liturgical sense of the term, because there are no prayers for the dead. It nonetheless r...