Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Souvernir de voyage

Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Trio pour clarinette, violoncelle et piano

John Corigliano (1938-)
Soliloquy

Tigran Mansurian (1939-)
Agnus Dei "In memoriam Oleg Kagan"

Frédéric Devreese (1929-2020)
Valse sacrée (partie pour violon adaptée par R. Hendrikx)

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
Metamorfosi di Violetta

Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble

Nicolas Dupont, violon
Noémi Tiercet, violon
Sander Geerts, alto
Sébastien Walnier, violoncelle
Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, piano
Roeland Hendrikx, clarinette

When film composers turn to classical music, they shed a straitjacket rather than lose a safety net. In his Metamorfosi di Violetta, Ennio Morricone dissects the unravelling of La Traviata’s heroin with filmic acuity. Tigran Mansurian’s Agnus Dei oscillates between chant and dissonance to evoke unresolved grief. John Corigliano’s Soliloquy turns inward even further, transforming private loss into quiet radiance. Bernard Herrmann never sought classical abstraction, yet Hitchcock’s musical alter ego – the composer of the Psycho and Vertigo scores – provides this program’s pièce de résistance: Souvenir du voyage, a nostalgic gem with profound cinematic sensibility.