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London Symphony Orchestra

Berlioz and Idéfix

They were masters of the scandal: Hector Berlioz in the nineteenth century and Pierre Boulez in the twentieth. Both big "B's" freed music from long-established rituals. Berlioz remembered Lord Byron's pirate novel The Corsair, paying tribute to the freethinking poet, whose daughter Ada Lovelace wrote computer programs in the early nineteenth century. Boulez was considered a math genius. In his work Mémoriale, he assigns to different wind instruments fixed sound areas, within which they go on to develop a "life of their own." They become the "explosante-fixe" of the work, leading us directly back to Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, which is devoted to the musical idée fixe. And Idéfix from the Asterix comics? Also brings Berlioz to mind.

Program

Hector Berlioz
„Le Corsaire“

Pierre Boulez
„Mémoriale“

Pierre Boulez
„Livre pour cordes“

Hector Berlioz
„Symphonie fantastique“

Estimated end time: 22:00

Artist

Antonio Pappano Conductor

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