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Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson

Symphonie Fantastique + Mozart

Wed, Jun 7–Sat, Jun 10, 2023 Roy Thomson Hall

An artist’s love-fueled daydream morphs into a hellish, psychedelic nightmare in Berlioz’s mind-bending masterpiece, Symphonie fantastique—shocking, visionary, and unprecedented when premiered in 1830, and still the wildest ride in classical music. Discover some of the most inventive voices of today when Gustavo Gimeno leads the music of Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason (“eerily close to defining classical music’s undefinable brave new world”—Time Out New York) and Toronto-based composer Eliot Britton. And, the “breathtakingly brilliant” (Gramophone) Víkingur Ólafsson shines in Mozart’s eloquent and sublime Piano Concerto No. 24.

Program

Eliot Britton

Des(re)pairCelebration Prelude

World Premiere/TSO Commission

3'

Daníel Bjarnason

I Want to Be Alive - Trilogy for Orchestra
First Part: Echo/Narcissus

World Première/TSO Co-commission

20'

Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491

31'

INTERMISSION

Berlioz

Symphonie fantastique

49'

Performers

TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno

Gustavo Gimeno

conductor
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson

Víkingur Ólafsson

piano