SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
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LEDOUX, Évanescence, revised version premiere
SAINT-SAËNS, Piano Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ, Symphonie fantastique
Simon Trpčeski, piano
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Lionel Bringuier, conductor
ROMANTICISM UNMISSABLE FIRST TIME TIMELESS CLASSIC
Composed in 1868, Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 plays with forms and styles: a Bach-like opening, a scherzo of distinctly Parisian elegance, and a dazzling final rush in the spirit of Offenbach. A spirit of clarity and irony ideally suited to pianist Simon Trpčeski. In contrast, Lionel Bringuier conducts Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a Romantic manifesto from 1830 that transforms the orchestra into a theatre of obsessive love, pastoral reverie, military fury, and ultimately a hallucinatory, phantasmagorical finale.
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Runtime : +/- 2h