Orchestre De Paris

When Lisa Batiashvili began her violin studies in Georgia, everyone at the conservatory wanted to perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto. Except her. Everyone knows it, she thought. It was only around ten years ago, when she was already an international star, that Batiashvili took on the much-played work and was surprised at what was actually in the score music: “That’s when you realize what has been added from habit and tradition.” She will perform unadulterated Tchaikovsky - smooth, pure and touching - with the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä. And the second part will be devoted to a composer for whom curiosity was the top priority. Hector Berlioz set his own unhappy relationship with the Irish actress Harriet Smithson to music in the Symphonie fantastique, bringing their love story to a fictitious, surreal end with an opium fever dream, an imagined execution, and a witches’ Sabbath. The highly innovative Berlioz resorted to numerous novel sound effects. You will hear the harps swoosh during the ball, the drums beat turbulently at the execution, and the violins rattle like skeletons by using the wooden part of the bow in the final dance of death - they make quite a racket!