Mozart: Grosse Messe & Beethoven 5 / Vlaams Radiokoor & Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw
Schedule
Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 08:15 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Flagey | Ixelles, BU
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Two masterpieces in C minor, each with a distinct voice, each a powerful expression of the human emotional landscape.Mozart’s Mass in C minor, or Great Mass, is among his most cherished choral works — majestic in scope, intense in expression, and full of surprises. Though unfinished, it balances reverence with drama, while offering moments of deep intimacy, especially in the soprano arias Mozart wrote for his wife Constanze.
In contrast, Beethoven’s Fifth resounds — music so deeply embedded in our collective memory that a single motif suffices. But iconic works are not iconic by accident. The emotion, the energy, the sheer humanity in this music remain unmatched.
“The most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man,” wrote E.M. Forster about the Fifth Symphony. But he might just as well have been speaking of Mozart’s Mass. Together with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, the Vlaams Radiokoor brings that sublimity vividly to life.
★ MUSIC
--- Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
--- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, KV 427/417 ‘Grosse Messe’
★ ARTISTS
--- Vlaams Radiokoor
--- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
--- Bart Van Reyn, conductor
--- Ilse Eerens, soprano
--- Barbara Kozelj, mezzo
--- James Way, tenor
--- François Heraud, baritone
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Flagey, Place Sainte-Croix, 1,Ixelles, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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