Name: Symphonie Fantastique
Start: 2025-02-26
End: 2025-02-26
Location: South Bank Centre

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Edward Gardner

Instrumentalist

Augustin Hadelich

Violin

Southbank Centre

Symphonie Fantastique

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Public

Concert

Sphinx

Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Symphonie fantastique Op. 14

Joshua Dos

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South Bank Centre

Symphonie Fantastique: Sphinx Sawer (+2 More)

Symphonie fantastique: An opioid adventure 💀

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Berlioz claimed that his Symphonie fantastique depicted an opium dream, but really he was just high on the sound of a supersized orchestra going for broke.

Sex and drugs and symphony orchestras: Hector Berlioz claimed that his Symphonie fantastique depicted an opium dream, but really he was just high on the sound of a supersized orchestra going for broke. Love, witchcraft, severed heads – it’s all here, in psychedelic colours, and you’d better believe that it’s a hard act to follow. That’s why Edward Gardner and the superb violinist Augustin Hadelich are setting the scene with Britten’s powerful Violin Concerto, and with the world premiere of Sphinx by David Sawer – a British composer whose raw imagination can give even Berlioz a run for his money.

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Symphonie Fantastique by Sawer, Britten, Berlioz, Wed 26 Feb 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Edward Gardner, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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