Programme: Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Mozart Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat K595, Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Performers: Adam Hickox conductor, Paul Lewis piano
Take a young composer with a heart full of unrequited love and a head full of wild imaginings. Add bells, witches, guillotines and a super-sized orchestra, and – well, let’s just say that they don’t call it the Symphonie fantastique for nothing. Adam Hickox conducts Berlioz’s extravaganza today, but first, we’ll join Claude Debussy in a garden of otherworldly delights, and Paul Lewis performs Mozart’s final piano concerto. It might be his loveliest.