Wed 19 Jul 2017

• 17:45

  Proms Extra: Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Author Richard Davenport-Hines and 大象传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay consider how opium became a stimulus to creativity in 19th-century Paris.

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  Proms Extra

  
• 19:30

  Prom 7: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

  Royal Albert Hall

  Take a musical thrill-ride from the chaos of creation to wild witches鈥� dances. Joshua Weilerstein conducts Berlioz鈥檚 phantasmagoric Symphonie fantastique, and is joined by his sister, cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Pascal Dusapin鈥檚 concerto Outscape.

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  Take a musical thrill-ride from the chaos of creation to wild witches鈥� dances. Joshua Weilerstein conducts Berlioz鈥檚 phantasmagoric Symphonie fantastique, and is joined by his sister, cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Pascal Dusapin鈥檚 concerto Outscape.

  Programme

  • • • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel
      • Les 茅l茅mens 鈥� Le cahos(7 mins)
    • • Pascal Dusapin
      • Outscape(28 mins)大象传媒 co-commission with the Casa da M煤sica Foundation (Porto), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Op茅ra de Paris and Stuttgart Opera: UK premiere
    • • interval
    • • Hector Berlioz
      • Symphonie fantastique(50 mins)

  Performers

  • Alisa Weilerstein

    cello
    cello
  • 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
  • Joshua Weilerstein

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel
  • Pascal Dusapin
  • Hector Berlioz

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  Revolutionary Music