Andris Nelsons conducts the “Symphonie fantastique”

Fanatical love, drug rapture, execution: there’s hardly an extreme experience that Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique leaves out. At the same time, the feverish expressivity is based on a cleverly calculated use of a tremendously large orchestra. In addition, Andris Nelsons and the Berliner Philharmoniker are presenting Debussy’s dreamy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Edgard Varèse’s orchestral work Arcana, which conjures up cosmic forces, on this French programme.

Berliner Philharmoniker

Andris Nelsons

Programme Guide

Artists

Andris Nelsons conductor

Claude Debussy composer

Edgard Varèse composer

Hector Berlioz composer

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