Bisse: Piano Concerto No. 5 - The Kaaba Concerto
Experience the Danish singer and songwriter Bisse perform his fifth piano concerto in The Black Diamond.
Bisse is the colourful innovator of Danish songwriting. From somewhere between folk high school songbook and loud provocation – or between CV Jørgensen, Nick Cave and Frank Ocean – Thorbjørn Radisch Bredkjær has so far released 13 albums since 2015 as Bisse.
In Bisse's songs, everyone is under fire: from Britta Nielsen and Sanjay Shah to the lowest common denominator and Bisse himself. Between melodic harmony and violent outbursts, Bisse sings about the country and its motorway networks and its block of flats, the great, lost love, and not least the pure-hearted memories from a childhood spent far from the city's noise and mess.
Piano concerto with wide-ranging repertoire
Since the summer of 2021, Bisse has performed his so-called piano concertos around Denmark. There is no telling which songs will be included this evening - with his piano concertos, Bisse gives an unpredictable tour of his wide-ranging repertoire alone on stage, a repertoire which includes both singer/songwriter, rock and revue! The starting point is Bisse's love for the piano, and this evening the grand Steinway grand piano of the Queen's Hall forms the basis for the concert.
Bisse says about the Kaaba concerto:
"It is a great honour for me to be invited to the Royal Danish Library. After all, this is the place where the Danes' stories are stored and saved for posterity, and for a storyteller like me it is therefore a place that fills me with awe. Just as the Muslims worship the Kaaba - the black cube-shaped building in Mecca - so I worship the Black Diamond! It is the shrine to which my face turns when I tell my stories. I can think of no better place to sing my songs than from within these sacred chambers, and I am very much looking forward to performing my fifth - and so far largest and most devotional - piano concerto in the Queen's Hall in the heart of The Black Diamond."
