This is Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky struck his audience speechless with inimitable orchestrations and rousing rhythms. A century later, his music astonishes and moves us just as effortlessly. The Belgian National Orchestra places the Russian master in the spotlight.

This concert brings an intense Stravinsky weekend to a ceremonial climax. Chant funèbre, the earliest surviving orchestral work by the composer, is a restrained tribute to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. The music unfolds like a shivering funeral procession: dark in colour, spare in gesture, yet charged with emotional intensity. 

In the Symphony of Psalms, Stravinsky turns toward the sacred. Not romantic devotion, but a stern, collective expression of faith. Voices and orchestra merge into a mystical presence shaped by repetition, simplicity and archaic power. 

For the finale, the theatre erupts with Petrushka. What begins as a vibrant folk celebration evolves into a hallucinatory dance of masks, puppets and fractured humanity. Rhythm drives forward, colours flash, irony and tragedy intertwine.