Our Lunchtime Concert season will open with a concert celebrating Théo Ysaÿe, a Belgian pianist and composer whose work is rightly enjoying renewed interest. KBR is actively contributing to this rediscovery, as its music collections hold many of the composer’s scores. This year marks the 160th anniversary of his birth, and among these treasures are a manuscript and the first edition of the Piano Quintet op. 5, preserved in the Eugène Ysaÿe collection as well as in the sources entrusted to the Music Department by Bozar in 2023. The Mendelssohn Ensemble will bring this monumental and unique work to life, drawing you into the distinctive sound world of one of César Franck’s most gifted pupils.

Musicians

• Daniel Rubenstein, violin
• Sophie Ackermann, violin
• Gergely Kota, viola
• Johannes Burghoff, cello
• Stéphane Ginsburgh, piano

Programme

Piano Quintet by Théo Ysaÿe

Concert in honor of Belgian composer Théo Ysaÿe

Tickets

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