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大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
29 Sep 2023, Music Hall, Aberdeen
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大象传媒 SSO 2023-24 Season Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique in Aberdeen

大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique in Aberdeen
19:30 Fri 29 Sep 2023 Music Hall, Aberdeen
Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pairs Berlioz's big-hearted blockbuster 'Symphonie fantastique' with one of the best classical music works of the 21st century (The Guardian).
Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pairs Berlioz's big-hearted blockbuster 'Symphonie fantastique' with one of the best classical music works of the 21st century (The Guardian).

Programme

ESCAPE INTO DREAMS & PASSIONS.

鈥淔rustrated in love, a young musician of deep sensitivity and ardent imagination takes opium鈥︹ Berlioz鈥檚 big-hearted blockbuster, Symphonie fantastique began as a nineteenth century tale of drugs and lust. It became鈥 well, the name says it all, really. This is a sonic extravaganza of gothic horror, hopeless devotion and glorious excess, played by one of the biggest orchestras the world had then seen.

Cassandra Miller鈥檚 Duet makes its points more quietly but no less powerfully, with one critic describing it as 鈥渙dd, beautiful, challenging in some ways but ultimately deeply engrossing鈥. Ilan Volkov and Charles Curtis rediscover what The Guardian selected as one of the best classical music works of the 21st century.

This concerts ends at approximately 9:20pm.