Symphonie Fantastique

CHARLES KOECHLIN Vers la voûte étoilée (Visions of the starry firmament) POULENC Gloria BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

ARIANE MATIAKH conductor DANIELLA SICARI soprano ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

Hector Berlioz poured all his unrequited longing into a symphony like nothing you’ve ever heard – an outrageous opium-fuelled fantasy of glittering ballrooms, guillotines and demonic revels. Making her Liverpool conducting debut is Ariane Matiakh, who takes us to the stars with a sultry French nightscape by Charles Koechlin, before the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir continue our journey to the heavens in Poulenc’s exuberant Gloria.