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Sat 26 Jan 2008 7:30pm at Symphony Hall
From dark incantations to supernatural beings, sinister gatherings of spectres and witches, the funereal tolling knell and drug-induced fantasies, Weber and Berlioz both vividly embraced the fashionably chilling Gothic horror of their day in Der Freischutz and the Symphonie Fantastique. Marek Janowski and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande frame these two classics with Mozart’s majestic Piano Concerto No 21, its exquisitely lyrical slow movement featured in the film Elvira Madigan.
Classic FM’s Anne-Marie Minhall says of tonight’s recommended concert:
“Weber’s Overture to Der Freischutz and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, were both landmark works. Weber moved away from the accepted operatic norm of elaborate plots and went instead for Germanic legends with a healthy helping of supernatural intrigue. Berlioz also went down the magical, ghostly route in telling the story of a desperate young musician who falls in love.”
£5 – £37.50 SH Standard Orchestral Plan
Marek Janowski Conductor
Nicolai Lugansky Piano
Weber Overture, Der Freischütz 8’
Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 30’
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique 50’
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