Wed 19 Jul 2017

• 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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  Also part of

  Proms 2017