Cyrill Ibrahim – Harmonie du Soir By Candlelight

Presented by British pianist Cyrill Ibrahim, the concert invites audiences into a carefully crafted atmosphere where music, poetry, light and space converge. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s poem Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony), the evening explores the fleeting beauty of dusk, the melancholy of passing time and the strange clarity that darkness can bring. In Baudelaire’s poem, fragrances, sounds and images of the setting sun become intertwined, evoking a world in which beauty and sorrow exist side by side. Memory emerges as a luminous presence, preserving what time would otherwise carry away. These ideas form the artistic heart of the concert: music as a passage from light into darkness, and from darkness into memory.

The concert brings together piano works spanning different musical worlds, from the introspection of Beethoven and Mozart to the poetic soundscapes of Debussy and Chopin, culminating in the visionary, atmospheric writing of Liszt.