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22 Jul 2025, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2025 Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’

Prom 6
Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’
19:30 Tue 22 Jul 2025 Royal Albert Hall
Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

Programme

      • Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)
      • ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick)(20 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
        • interval
        • Symphonie fantastique(49 mins)

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

    Sean Shibe © Iga Godzdowska

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