Sep 1

KlaraFestival - In Search For Heaven - Official Opening Concert

With François-Xavier Roth, Antonín Dvořák and 3 more artists at Bozar

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Date

Thursday 1 September 2011 at 8:00pm

Location

Bozar
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussels, 1000, Belgium

Tel: 02 507 82 00

Web: http://www.bozar.be

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Link

http://www.klarafestival.be/en/concert/search-heaven

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FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH CONDUCTOR
LES SIÈCLES
LA MAÎTRISE DE CAEN BOYS CHOIR
FRANZ LISZT Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia, s. 109
ANTONÍN DVORAK Symphony no. 9 in e, op. 95 “From The New World”
Liszt, whose 200th birthday falls this year, was holidaying on the shores of Lake Como with his then mistress Marie d’Agoult when he first read Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Christian epic fired his imagination, inspiring not only the superb Après une lecture de Dante, from the Années de Pélerinage, but also a grandiose symphony which he was to devote to his son-in-law Richard Wagner. This vivid narrative takes us from hell to purgatory but stops short of eternal life, providing only a fleeting glimpse of it. Paradise is just as elusive in Dvořák’s New World Symphony, penned in the early 1890s during an extended stay in New York. Is its haunting largo a blissful evocation of life on the prairie, or a homesick remembrance of his native Bohemia? François-Xavier Roth, conducting his crisp period- instrument ensemble Les Siècles, knows better than to dispel the ambiguity.

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