Symphony Fantastic – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

MUSIC BY
Hector Berlioz / Maurice Ravel / Camille Saint-Saëns
Death has never sounded more alive than in Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, where a violin charms skeletons from their graves so they can dance until the break of dawn. Then, allow yourself to be lured to the depths of a crazed composer’s mind in Symphonie Fantastique. Our Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici will energise the orchestra with Berlioz’s evocative cocktail of opium and desire and actor Eugene Gilfedder will set a nightmarish scene. Between these killer works you’ll hear Ravel’s Tzigane, rapsodie de concert, as Hungarian violinist József Lendvay will hold you in the clutches of this spellbinding solo infused with a gypsy spirit.

Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Ravel Tzigane, rapsodie de concert
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
CONDUCTOR Umberto Clerici
SOLOIST József Lendvay, violin
ACTOR Eugene Gilfedder