Nothing in music quite compares to the sensational, opium-fuelled spectacular that is Hector Berlioz’s 'Symphonie fantastique'. Born from unrequited desire, and sweeping from pastoral love-scenes to a witches’ Sabbath, it continues to dazzle the ear. Yan Pascal Tortelier will bring plenty of French elan to this concert favourite. And he joins Scottish pianist Steven Osborne in Beethoven’s most personal – and poetic – piano concerto: music that asks as many questions as it answers.
Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
In a change to the originally advertised speaker, Dr David Code, from the University of Glasgow, introduces the concert.
(approximate finish time: 9.30pm)
The concert will be broadcast live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3, presented by Jamie MacDougall.
Please note that Yan Pascal Tortelier replaces Donald Runnicles who had to withdraw from this concert.