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Joolz Gale et Boris Giltburg solaires avec le Brussels Philharmonic à Flagey

Joolz Gale
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By Patrice Lieberman, 23 November 2025
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“une interprétation d’un superbe naturel comme d’une réelle finesse”
Reviewed at Flagey: Studio 4, Brussels on 22 November 2025
Programme
Bruckner, Locus Iste, gradual, WAB 23
Bruckner, Virga Jesse floruit, motet, WAB 52
Bruckner, Os justi meditabitur, motet, WAB 30
Beethoven, Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra "Choral Fantasy", Op.80
Bruckner, Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106
Performers
Boris Giltburg, Piano
Flemish Radio Choir
Joolz Gale, Conductor
Brussels Philharmonic
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Patrice Lieberman
Patrice Lieberman
Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.