Belgian National Orchestra, Sirvend & Gringolts

With The Unanswered Question, American composer Charles Ives places the listener inside an existential space. A simple, almost timeless question is posed again and again, while the attempted answers grow increasingly tense and desperate, until only silence remains. Music as thought, without resolution. At the heart of the programme lies Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, "To the Memory of an Angel".