Filipe Costa Raposo, violinist with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, takes the Friends on a discovery into the world of the orchestra, and of the violin. Filipe talks about his passion for the instrument, his path to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and life in an orchestra. With any luck, some music will also resound. An opportunity to get to know this musician from our orchestra better!

Instrument in the spotlight: violin with Filipe Costa Raposo

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

The string octet offers the best of both worlds, combining the full resonance of a string orchestra with the soloistic virtuosity and clarity of a chamber music ensemble. Max Bruch, an incurable romantic, composed his swansong, the String Octet in B-Flat Major, towards the end of his life. A few years later, Dimitri Shostakovich would embrace modernity in his Prelude and Scherzo, opus 11. Reinhold Glière’s String Octet in D Major strikes a compromise between the two. While the fiery temperament is indisputably Russian, the lyricism harks back to German romanticism. Enjoy three key early 20th-century chamber pieces.

Filipe Costa Raposo

Events

Past events

Nov 29, 2024

Instrument in the spotlight: violin with Filipe Costa Raposo · Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Jun 16, 2024

Chamber music: Three string octets · Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in String Octet by Glière

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Violin in Octet by Bruch

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

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