European Tour: Symphonie fantastique
Composed in 1868, Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 plays with forms and styles: a Bach-like opening, a scherzo of distinctly Parisian elegance, and a dazzling final rush in the spirit of Offenbach. A spirit of clarity and irony ideally suited to pianist Simon Trpčeski. In contrast, Lionel Bringuier conducts Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a Romantic manifesto from 1830 that transforms the orchestra into a theatre of obsessive love, pastoral reverie, military fury, and ultimately a hallucinatory, phantasmagorical finale.
Programme
FAURÉ, Pavane
SAINT-SAËNS, Piano Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ, Symphonie fantastique
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Two Mozart masterpieces: his Horn Concerto performed by Margaux Ortman, and his Thirty-Ninth Symphony, conducted by Giulio Cilona.
MOZART, SYMPHONY No. 39
Two Mozart masterpieces: his Horn Concerto performed by Margaux Ortman, and his Thirty-Ninth Symphony, conducted by Giulio Cilona.
La notte
A nocte temporis recounts the travels of musicians during the Baroque era — journeys shaped by encounters and cultural cross-pollination. A musical voyage through England, Italy, Germany and France.