These Worlds Within Us

This evening explores those inner landscapes that music reveals better than any other art form: dreams, dizzy heights, visions and secret impulses. With Ophélie, Mel Bonis (1858–1937) gives voice to a female figure shaped by both imagination and tragedy. Long excluded from the official musical canon, the French composer reveals here a refined art of colour and suggestion.

These Worlds In Us by the American composer Missy Mazzoli (born 1980) continues this inward journey in a contemporary musical language that is vibrant, organic and charged with underlying tensions.

In the second half, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, the “Romantic”, opens onto an even vaster horizon with brass chords that unite the architecture of cathedrals with the mystical song of nature unfolding like a monumental fresco. From one dream world to another, the concert traces a journey through the invisible forces that inhabit us.