Heroes are everywhere on this programme for the entire family!
The first hero lurks behind the tragic figure of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, the overture to which will serve as a musical foretaste of what happens in the opera itself. For Max Bruch, it is the violin that takes pride of place, an instrument that he regarded as the “queen of instruments” – his Violin Concerto No. 1 is standard repertoire for anyone who seeks to be a hero of that instrument. And who is that mysterious hero, anyway, to whom Beethoven dedicated his Third Symphony, the Eroica?
Programme
Richard Wagner – Ouverture from ‘Tristan und Isolde’ (only in Antwerp)
Max Bruch – Concerto for violin in g minor, op. 26
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no3 ‘Eroica’
Extra: Family Concert at Brussels!
