Trauermusik
Brussels Philharmonic
In the first week of November, after All Souls’ Day, when the weather is at its bleakest and our thoughts go to those we have lost, conductor Reinhard Goebel presents a programme full of comforting funeral music.
The conductor steers clear of pieces such as Mozart’s Requiem, but – as is often his habit – digs deep into the less developed oeuvre of Wolfgang Amadeus’ contemporaries Joseph Martin Kraus and Giovanni Paisiello. Both men wrote their own Sinfonia funebre that bathes in a reassuring melancholy.
Goebel links these two eponymous pieces to Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto funebre, and to music by Fasch and Corette: haunting dirges from the conductor’s beloved Baroque period.
Flagey, Brussels Philharmonic