Dukas & Debussy w/ Brussels Philharmonic & Jun Märkl

Paris, 1912: the Belle Époque is in full swing, marked by artistic innovation, elegance, and a growing fascination with the exotic. In the midst of this creative energy, Paul Dukas and Claude Debussy let musical imagination take center stage.

At the request of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, Dukas composed La Péri, a poème dansé inspired by a Persian myth—a lushly orchestrated tale of a search for immortality.

With his Images pour orchestre, Claude Debussy stayed firmly on the European continent. “When one cannot afford to travel, one must compensate with imagination,” he wrote—and an imagination he had. In this musical portrait, he evokes not only France and England, but also a vibrant Spanish culture—one he never actually experienced firsthand.


♫ 𝟐𝟎:𝟏𝟓 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄
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• Paul Dukas, La Péri, poème dansé en un tableau
• Claude Debussy, Images pour orchestre
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★ conducted by Jun Märkl
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► 19:00 doors open
► 19:30 introduction: Sander De Keere (EN)
► 20:15 concert (without intermission)
► 21:30 end
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𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘹 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘹 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳

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