22.07.25, 15:00, Renaat De Keyser

Pianist Renaat De Keyser does not hide his love for 20th century piano repertoire. After all, challenging times generate strong art. With Tombeau de Couperin, Maurice Ravel wrote not only a tribute to the baroque composer, but above all an intimate remembrance of his own fallen friends from the First World War. Frederic Rzewski also unleashes a rebellious side on stage, as his Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues is a reference to a protest song sung in the cotton mills. Who else but Antheil completes the bill. This musical bad boy of the interwar period, also opposes in turn, but mainly the romantic euphonious version of the sonata form which, according to him, had had its day. ‘Wild’ this evening will undoubtedly be, but in the best sense of the word.