Vers la Flamme
Brecht Valckenaers
Alexander Scriabin wrote Vers La Flamme in 1914, as an ode to the ecstasy that was supposed to become his eleventh piano sonata but was published as a separate character piece due to financial difficulties. The iconic pianist Vladimir Horowitz believes the piece was written after a psychotic episode in which Scriabin saw the impending end times: the title refers both to the Earth’s fiery demise and the unstoppable, primal, spiritual power of the composition. The composer Brecht Valckenaers composes and performs a response that reverses the movement: not from darkness to ecstasy but from ecstasy to rest. In his version, Scriabin’s scorching flames are transformed into a warm afterglow.
Brecht Valckenaers - piano en composition
25.04.2026
14:30 — 17:00
Predikherenkerk
Goswin de Stassartstraat 88, 2800 Mechelen
Predikherenkerk
14:30 > 15:00 & 16:30 > 17:00