Duration
120 Min
Daniil Trifonov & Semyon Bychkov in Dvořák & Berlioz
Czech Philharmonic
120 Min
The Czech Philharmonic kicks off its new season with a visit from pianist Daniil Trifonov, who joins the orchestra’s outgoing music director in a relative rarity by Dvořák: his piano concerto, premiered in Prague in 1878 and championed by such pianists as Rudolf Firkušný and Sviatoslav Richter. For the concert’s second half, Bychkov and his orchestra tackle one of the quintessential works of musical Romanticism: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique of 1830, a work of wild imagination that portrays an artist’s opium-fuelled daydreams turning into the nightmare of a Witches’ Sabbath and then a March to the Scaffold that brings one of the most thrilling orchestral showpieces in the repertoire to a rousing conclusion.
- Soloist:
- Daniil Trifonov (Piano)
- Ensemble:
- Czech Philharmonic
- Conductor:
- Semyon Bychkov
