Season of the Song: Cyrill Ibrahim - Harmonie du Soir

Harmonie du Soir takes its name and spirit from the celebrated poem by Charles Baudelaire, published in his 1857 collection Les Fleurs du mal. Written in alexandrine verse, the poem meditates on the dreamlike beauty of dusk, the intertwining of sensuality and transcendence, and the fleeting nature of love and memory. This program draws its emotional arc directly from the poem: from serenity and longing, through passion, contemplation, and inner turbulence, to ecstatic release. A journey from dusk into night - and beyond into dream.Liszt’s Harmonies du Soir crowns the evening as a musical mirror of Baudelaire’s poetic vision. Alongside masterpieces by Chopin, Debussy, Glass, and Beethoven, and with contemporary voice through John Frederick Hudson’s Penumbra, the concert brings together eras and moods into a single twilight reverie.