The program includes a new chamber music version of the song cycle ​“Songs for the Crossing” that Jeroen D’hoe (°1968) composed on poems by author Stefan Hertmans (°1951) for soprano, choir and orchestra, commissioned by Flagey (2017). Inspired by the unique setting of the Drongenhofkapel, the composer has specially created a new sober, intimate version for soprano, piano and string quintet.’Songs for the Crossing’ is both a current commemoration of the First World War and a reflection on the struggle that still marks many people’s lives every day, on the run from war conflict and violence, two themes that form Hertmans’ novels ​“War and Turpentine” and ​“De Bekeerlinge” features, which were the inspiration for the poems set in this song cycle.