Wed 19 Jul 2017

• 17:45

  Proms Extra: Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Author Richard Davenport-Hines and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay consider how opium became a stimulus to creativity in 19th-century Paris.

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  Proms Extra

  
• 19:30

  Prom 7: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

  Royal Albert Hall

  Take a musical thrill-ride from the chaos of creation to wild witches’ dances. Joshua Weilerstein conducts Berlioz’s phantasmagoric Symphonie fantastique, and is joined by his sister, cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Pascal Dusapin’s concerto Outscape.

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  Take a musical thrill-ride from the chaos of creation to wild witches’ dances. Joshua Weilerstein conducts Berlioz’s phantasmagoric Symphonie fantastique, and is joined by his sister, cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Pascal Dusapin’s concerto Outscape.

  Programme

  • • • Jean‐Féry Rebel
      • Les élémens – Le cahos(7 mins)
    • • Pascal Dusapin
      • Outscape(28 mins)BBC co-commission with the Casa da Música Foundation (Porto), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Paris and Stuttgart Opera: UK premiere
    • • interval
    • • Hector Berlioz
      • Symphonie fantastique(50 mins)

  Performers

  • Alisa Weilerstein

    cello
    cello
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Joshua Weilerstein

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jean‐Féry Rebel
  • Pascal Dusapin
  • Hector Berlioz

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  Revolutionary Music