PROGRAM

* Hector Berlioz Ouverture to the opera Beatrice et Benedict
* Franz Liszt Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 A major
* Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. Épisode de la vie d'un artiste op. 14

Classical Music What composer’s work ranges from a featherlight romantic comedy worthy of the Hollywood treatment to the symphonic portrait of a tragic “amour fou” that ends in a hallucinatory witches’ sabbath? It can only be Hector Berlioz; hardly any other musician explored the extremes of the Romantic palette as impulsively and breathtakingly. Fabien Gabel, a compatriot of the composer and the director of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, returns to the Tonkunstler Orchestra to focus on Berlioz, also joining the pianist Simon Trpčeski to interpret Franz Liszt’s lyrically dramatic A major Piano Concerto: a brilliant sonic firework display!

Simon Trpčeski piano, Fabien Gabel conductor, Tonkunstler Orchestra