Landscape and myths

Het Muziek + Katrien Baerts

Thu 21 Jan 2027 20:15 - 22:00

contemporary

Thu 21 Jan 2027

20:15 - 22:00

Thu 21 Jan 2027

20:15 - 22:00

Grote Zaal

From Tue 31 Mar 2026 12:00

Program

19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / pre-concert talk

20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Yannis Kyriakides Now we send you this message
Calliope Tsoupaki Medea
Thomas Larcher Madhares
Thomas Larcher The Living Mountain

Credits

Het Muziek
Katrien Baerts soprano
Awoiska van der Molen visual artist

Visual soundscapes by Tsoupaki, Kyriakides, and Larcher

Some landscapes feel mythical, such as the South Tyrolean mountains captured in the exquisite black-and-white photography of Awoiska van der Molen. Her impressive visual installation inspired Austrian composer Thomas Larcher to create contemplative, colourful music for soprano and ensemble. The experience becomes truly mythical in the instrumental melodrama Medea by former Composer Laureate of the Netherlands, Calliope Tsoupaki. A poignant descent into the soul of the tormented sorceress who killed her own children.

Landscapes, dream images and myths are what this programme is all about. And, of course, the power of stories. For his sweltering Now we send you this message, composer Yannis Kyriakides used a historical letter as a starting point, bringing to life a fascinating episode from the history of his native Cyprus. Nearby, on Crete, Larcher composed his five-part string quartet Madhares, a work defined by its powerful, turbulent rhythms.

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