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