Dreams and fantasies from enigmatic Szymanowski to Berlioz’s most rock’n’roll work, the Symphonie fantastique.
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Hector Berlioz
Overture: Le corsaire (8 mins)
Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No 1 (26 mins)
Interval
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (52 mins)
Berlioz was always in thrall to one craze or other. His Le corsaire Overture was inspired by a love of Byron, an attraction to piracy, and a failed affair. The result is a suitably colourful experience.
Composed in 1916, Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto is haunting, enigmatic and inspired by an ecstatic poem about a ‘rapturous conflagration’. And Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a wild ride through a drug-fuelled hallucination, triggered by thwarted love and full of astonishing orchestral effects.
Lisa Batiashvili, known for her exquisite sound, is perfect for Szymanowski’s Concerto, the second instalment of her Artist Portrait series with the LSO. To open and close the concert, the LSO and Pappano enjoy a riotous adventure through Berlioz’s imagination.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London, EC2Y 8DS England, United Kingdom
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