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NEWS Wim Mertens presents his new album in Brussels.

Wim Mertens presents his new album in Brussels.

27th of September 2016, 15:08

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With Dust of Truths Wim Mertens presents the final part 3 of his musi-fiction triptych Cran aux Oeufs (2015-2016).

The first part, Charaktersketch, was situated in central Europe Brussels anno 2015. The composer questions the position of culture in a larger mondial context.

The second part, What are we, locks, to do? for piano and voice is inspired by the Alexandrian Library in Egypt (300 B.C.). Central figures are the poet Callimachus and Queen Berenice II. Mertens music reads here as a commentary on the golden age of Ptolemaic Egypt.

For part 3, Dust of Truths, Wim Mertens refers to the navy Battle of Actium, which happened in Preveza, Greece in 31 B.C. Opponents here were the (future) Emperor August who defeated the Egyptian warships of Cleopatra.

Mertens considers this battle rather as a civil war dispute within the Roman Empire then a explicit conflict between Rome and Egypt.

Brussels, Belgium, 2015; Alexandria, Egypt, 300 B.C.; and the Battle of Actium, Greece, 31 b.Chr.

Together they form the triptych Cran aux Oeufs, a musi-fiction in which Wim Mertens questions the multiple connections between music, poetry and truth.


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Het is onmogelijk om de verdiensten van Wim Mertens in enkele regels op te sommen. Deze Belgische componist, pianist, musicoloog, gitarist en zanger werd in 1953 geboren en groeide de afgelopen decennia uit tot een muzikant van formaat. Tot op vandaag brengt hij zijn muziek voor volle concertzalen in Europa, Noord- en Centraal-Amerika, Japan en Rusland.

Sinds 1980 componeert Mertens naast korte, toegankelijke nummers (‘Lieder’) ook complexere cycli. Bij de uitvoering van zijn werk houdt hij het liefst rekening met de omstandigheden waarin de muziek wordt gebracht. Zowel solo als met een klein ensemble, kamerorkest, symfonisch orkest of speciale bezetting (twaalf piccolo’s, tien bastrombones of dertien klarinetten) brengt hij zijn melodieuze en vaak repetitieve partituren in een levendige dialoog met het publiek.

In maart 2015 bracht Wim Mertens Charaktersketch uit. Dit album is het eerste deel van de trilogie Cran aux Oeufs waarbij hij het Europa van vandaag in vraag stelt. Het tweede deel What are we, locks, to do? verscheen op 4 maart 2016. Het derde Dust of Truths gaat in première in BOZAR op 21 oktober.



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