‘La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Altinoglu’

A pure C chord, resounding brasses, thunderous timpani … Slowly, the first light of day breaks through the darkness. No wonder Stanley Kubrick found the perfect soundtrack for a cosmic sunrise in the opening bars of Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra! Another ‘landscape’, that of Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist for strings, piano and tuba will find a Scandinavian counterpart in this concert programme in Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite. But first, Alain Altinoglu and the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra will kick off this final concert with a bang: Fasten Seat Belts! by Luc Brewaeys, ten years after his death. His ‘Nightmare for Orchestra’ rushes at breakneck speed through unisons, quarter tones and sound explosions. Buckle up!