Tsunami

One of the Belgian string quartets causing a furore is undoubtedly the Sonoro Quartet. Now their international dream is also coming true. Within the European Concert Hall Organisation, they were chosen as Rising Stars and will represent Bozar in no less than 16 European concert halls during the ‘23-‘24 season. Their luggage will also contain a token from one of our most distinguished Belgian composers, Annelies Van Parys. She wrote the work Tsunami especially for this tour.

About Tsunami
"The piece is inspired by the marvelous call of the Japanese Cicadas. Their sound struck me when I was walking through the parcs in Tokyo during my residency at the TOKAS Tokyo Arts and Space. Not only their voicing, but also their rhythm as well as the strength of their call was extraordinary to my ears and I immediately knew I would use them for a string piece. When the request for Sonoro Quartet came a few weeks later, I gladly accepted because I knew this would be the perfect ensemble for my idea. So the Tsunami here is not one of water but one of Cicadas…" - Annelies Van Parys

Sonoro Quartet
ensemble

Programmes

THE DEVIL’S DREAM
61'

Seán Doherty
String Quartet no. 3 "Devil's Dream"
Annelies Van Parys
Tsunami - New commission
Guillaume Lekeu
Molto adagio sempre cantante doloroso
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
String Quartet no. 6, op. 80

REFLECTIONS
58’

Haydn 
String Quartet op.76, no.4, “Sunrise”
Annelies van Parys 
Tsunami - New commission
Schostakovich 
String Quartet no.8

JOURNEYS
78’

Annelies van Parys 
Tsunami - New commission
Bartók 
String quartet no.5
Vinthya Perinpanathan 
Flight UL505
Beethoven 
String Quartet op.59 no.3, “Razumovsky”