For this Beyond The Score, the sea flows between the notes. Shifting like the tide, orchestral masterpieces merge with the sonic seascapes of Vera Cavallin and Christophe Albertijn to form a single, seamless wave.
Through her Terrasonica project, Vera Cavallin is building a haunting archive of endangered sounds that captures the fading echoes of our natural world—from animal species to environments at risk of disappearing. “For this concert, I will create a soundscape in which field recordings and an acoustic instrument reconnect with one another, creating a sonic universe linked to the sea—what it evokes and its frequencies—while also carrying a message about the need to protect the element from which everything originated.”
Just as ocean waves surge toward the horizon in a perpetuum mobile, the music in this programme unfolds almost without beginning or end. With eyes fixed on the infinite, Saariaho, Britten, and Sibelius create works deeply entwined with personal experience, the raw power of nature, and the sea. For this Beyond The Score, the sea flows between the notes. Shifting like the tide, orchestral masterpieces merge with the sonic seascapes of Vera Cavallin and Christophe Albertijn to form a single, seamless wave.
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Seven planets, seven impressions. The concept is as simple as it is genius: Gustav Holst created his own big bang by giving a voice to the planets and their influence on the human psyche. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, The Planets resounds where music and the cosmos collide: the Planetarium. Eight projectors transform the giant 23-meter dome into a spectacular window onto the universe. An immersive journey takes you past distant planets, deep into the starry night sky. A unique experience that literally and figuratively gives Holst's music wings.
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Bozar’s Total Immersion festival aims for complete auditory immersion: from historical compositions to new creations and a night-long happening. The Brussels Philharmonic performs Stockhausen's Gruppen, an iconic avant-garde work that places the audience at the center of three orchestras for the ultimate, analogue 3D audio experience. Conducted by Kazushi Ono, Ilan Volkov and Peter Rundel.
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With Beyond The Score, Brussels Philharmonic looks beyond the notes, exploring what symphonic music awakens in other voices across our society. These concerts are born from creation, encounter, and cross-pollination with the wider arts field.
More voices. More impulses. And above all: music. More than music.
Step back into the evening of Le Poème du feu performed on 6 December 2025, as seen through the analogue lens of photographer Lars Bauwens. He captured the atmosphere, the energy, and the fleeting stillness — preserved on film.
