Symfonie fantastique
Love and heartbreak as musical inspiration: from Saint-Saëns’ romance to Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, which ends in a sublime nightmare.
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85-90musicians
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“Love makes the world go round,” says an old French proverb. A love song inspired Saint-Saëns to compose his Fifth Piano Concerto. But it is unrequited love that truly gives rise to great music. Rejected by the woman of his dreams, Berlioz wrote his Symphonie fantastique—music that blossoms like a budding romance, only to end in a sublime nightmare. Long live heartbreak.
Programme & performers
How Slow the Wind
Takemitsu
Fifth Piano Concerto ‘Egyptian’
Saint-Saëns
Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz

ConductorKazuki Yamada

PianoAlexandre Kantorow
the source of great music.

I watched one of the most charismatic conductors I’ve seen all year

All play dates of Symfonie fantastique
Friday 17 Oct 20258:15 PM
Rotterdamde Doelen (Grand Hall)
Sale starts: May 21st 10:00 AM
Sunday 19 Oct 20252:15 PM
Rotterdamde Doelen (Grand Hall)
Sale starts: May 21st 10:00 AM