Flanders Music Centre is now Kunstenpunt / Flanders Arts Institute.

Belgian National Orchestra

The Belgian National Orchestra performs an extensive repertoire of music without constraining itself to any particular period or place. Thus we find classical and romantic pieces on the programme together with modern works from the 20th century.

Since its creation in 1936, the Belgian National Orchestra can boast a productive career that has known numerous encounters with renowned conductors and celebrated soloists. Through the passage of the years the identity of the orchestra has been thoroughly modernized and time has carved for it a definite profile. It performs an extensive repertoire of music. Thus we find classical and romantic pieces on the programme together with modern works from the 20th century and each year some contemporary Belgian works. The orchestra also invests time in specific projects such as film scores, various recordings in collaboration with the Cyprès label, participation in the Queen Elisabeth competition and concert tours abroad.

Selective discography

	Queen Elisabeth Competition violin 2019 (2019) classical Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Johannes Brahms, Hugh Wolff, Belgian National Orchestra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Bram Van Camp (...)		Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances (2017) romanticism Belgian National Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninov, Hugh Wolff
	Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium Violin 2015 (2015) classical Diverse componisten, Belgian National Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Paul Meyer, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie		Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd voor piano 2013 (2013) classical Sergei Rachmaninov, Belgian National Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Michael Hofstetter, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Frederic Rzewski, Boris Giltburg, Johann Sebastian Bach (...)
	Martinu Bohuslav - Vioolconcerto (2012) 20th century Lorenzo Gatto, Walter Weller, Belgian National Orchestra		75 years Ysaÿe & queen Elisabeth violin competition (2012) 20th century, romanticism Yossif Ivanov, Georges Octors, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Vadim Repin, Marc Soustrot, Jean Sibelius, René Defossez, Nikolaj Znaider (...)
	Brahms - Haydn Variations, Piano Concerto n°1 (2011) romanticism Plamena Mangova, Belgian National Orchestra, Johannes Brahms, Walter Weller		Suk Josef - Symfonie nr. 2 Asrael op. 27 (2009) romanticism Belgian National Orchestra, Walter Weller
	Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd voor viool 2009 (2009) 21st century / contemporary, 20th century, romanticism Lorenzo Gatto, Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, Belgian National Orchestra, Paul Goodwin, Gilbert Varga		Strauss Richard (2008) 20th century Plamena Mangova, Belgian National Orchestra, Walter Weller

Selectieve discografie als componist

	Koningin Elisabethwestrijd voor piano 1999 (1999) 21st century / contemporary, 20th century, romanticism Vitaly Samoshko, Belgian National Orchestra, Boudewijn Cox, Belgian National Orchestra, Vitaly Samoshko, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt, Piotr Iljitsj Tsjaikovski (...)

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