BATIASHVILI — LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — PAPPANO

The legendary London Symphony Orchestra and its newly-minted chief conductor Sir Antonio Pappano are a dream team. Raised in the USA by parents with Italian roots, the British conductor first conducted the orchestra in 1996 in an opera recording, and he describes this experience as overwhelming: »I thought I’d just gotten into a Ferrari and stepped on the gas pedal«. The conductor and the LSO will give a sample of this dynamic music-making at the Kulturpalast, where they welcome the violinist Lisa Batiashvili as the soloist in the first half of the concert, which is dedicated to Mozart. The charismatic, acclaimed artist is perfectly cast in Mozart’s A-major Violin Concerto, in which melodies of heavenly beauty stand next to more ambiguous sounds. The much-vaunted brilliant orchestra sound will ring out in Berlioz’ programmatic behemoth of a symphony, recounting the »amour fou« of an unknown artist in five episodes.

LISA BATIASHVILI VIOLIN
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO CONDUCTOR

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to the Opera »Le nozze di Figaro« K. 492 and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A-major K. 219
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Op. 14. »Épisode de la vie d’un artiste«