Philharmonia Orchestra: Ashkenazy conducts in Bristol

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Ashkenazy conducts in Bristol

Colston Hall
Tue 29 May 2012 7:30pm

Vladimir Ashkenazy

conductor

Nobuyuki Tsujii

piano

Berlioz

Overture, Béatrice et Bénédict

Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 1

Berlioz

Symphonie fantastique

Written when Berlioz was just 27-years-old, the Symphony fantastique is one of the great achievements in symphonic music, and a reinvention of the symphonic rules set out by Beethoven who died just three years before it was written. The ‘plot’ is an opium-induced patchwork of images, with five movements linked by a single theme, the idée fixe. The movements are supplied with sub-titles to explain events: Reveries – Passions; A Ball; Scene in the Country; March to the Scaffold and Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath. This idea (literally ‘obsession’) reaches its chilling climax when it is coupled with the terrifying Dies Irae plainchant. Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the great names in Classical Music for over five decades and the Philharmonia’s Conductor Laureate, conducts. He is joined by Nobuyuki Tsujii in the first half who performs Chopin's exquisite Piano Concerto No. 1.