Berlioz鈥檚 鈥楽ymphonie fantastique鈥�

22 Jul 2025, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Tue 22 Jul 2025 Next Event

Proms 2025 Berlioz鈥檚鈥楽ymphonie fantastique鈥�

Berlioz鈥檚鈥楽ymphonie fantastique鈥�

19:30 Tue 22 Jul 2025 Royal Albert Hall

Anja Bihlmaier and the 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson鈥檚 ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss鈥檚 Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique

Programme

- - Richard Strauss
  - Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)
- - Mark Simpson
  - ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick)(20 mins)蜜芽传媒 commission: world premiere
- - interval
- - Hector Berlioz
  - Symphonie fantastique(49 mins)

Performers

Sean Shibe
electric guitar
electric guitar
蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

A concert of larger-than-life sounds, stories and characters has Berlioz鈥檚 Symphonie fantastique at its heart. Heady, opium-fuelled visions create a kaleidoscopic sequence: a swirling ballroom, a march to the scaffold and a witches鈥� sabbath, all set to the obsessive pulse of unrequited love. Sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick inspires Mark Simpson鈥檚 ZEBRA, a new concerto for maverick guitarist and former 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sean Shibe. The concert opens with Strauss鈥檚 Death and Transfiguration 鈥� no less than a musical struggle between life and death, climaxing in a promise of eternal peace.

Sean Shibe 漏 Iga Godzdowska