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Beyond Silence

Flagey: Studio 4Place Saint-Croix / Heilig Kruisplein, Brussels, Brussels Capital, 1050, Belgium
Dates/times in Brussels time zone
Friday 10 October 202520:15

Music often expresses what words cannot. But sometimes it is precisely the silence – suspended between notes – that reveals the deepest emotions. It is within this fragile space that Giya Kancheli, the Georgian master of melancholy, and Arvo Pärt, apostle of spiritual simplicity, find their voice.

Kancheli’s Amao Omi – literally ‘senseless war’ – evokes a world adrift, searching for meaning. Fragments of text, detached from their original context, drift like voices from a forgotten time. Abrupt shifts and a masterful use of silence offer a striking reflection on the absurd and tragic nature of human conflict. A musical manifesto in which the deep human longing for connection and understanding resonates in every note.

With Miserere, Pärt invites us into an intimate, almost sacred plea for mercy. His music moves between whisper and storm, tension and release. Each silence carries light, each crescendo a path toward inner elevation. Until all returns to the essential: calm, clarity, peace.

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