We journey to Antwerp with a programme showcasing our extraordinary musical breadth.
Thomas Adès lays bare the music of François Couperin, fragments of the past meeting the present in kaleidoscopic explosions of colour. Alexandre Tharaud joins us for Ravel’s Piano Concerto. Jazz, classical and folk influences interweave in a masterpiece Ravel wrote not to be profound but to entertain.
Waltz through a glittering ball, enter a feverish dream, march to your own execution, and spin into dark delirium at a witches’ sabbath. Take on the opium-infused visions of a tortured artist haunted by unrequited passion in this of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.¬†Inspired by the composer‚Äôs own romantic infatuation with a young actress, this epoch-making work unfolds as a cinematic fantasy full of wild imagination and demonic madness ‚Äì by turns gorgeous and grotesque.¬†Premiered at the BBC Proms in 2019 as one of the most talked-about orchestral events of the past decade, we bring it across the water to make our debut at the Elbphilharmonie.