An evening that flirts with the boundary between religion and sensuality: the symphonic Poème de l’Extase by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin plunges you for twenty minutes in an intoxicating world that leads ultimately to a sensual ecstasy. Accompanied by a few passages from the best known works of Richard Wagner (including Parsifal and Lohengrin) by way of a dramatic counteraction. In other words, revealing how ecstasy and Bohemianism, sensuality and religion can go hand in hand. 


Programme

Richard Wagner 

• Ouverture from ‘Parsifal’
• Gralserzählung from ‘Lohengrin’
• Amfortas, die Wunde from ‘Parsifal’
• Nur eine Waffe taugt from ‘Parsifal’
• Prelude to the 3rd act from ‘Lohengrin’
• Siegfried am Rhein from ‘Götterdämmerung’
• Richard Wagner— Winterstürme from ‘Walküre’

Alexander Scriabin

• Symfonie no 4, op.54, ‘Poème de l'extase’

 

Listen to Torsten Kerl singing Wagner's 'Winterstürme' at his online mediaplayer!

 

Extra at Bruges

19.15 Introduction by Michael Van Hecke (NL)