Dream Team: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

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The dream‐team of Vasily Petrenko, the RLPO and Simon Trpčeski come together again performing works by Debussy, Saints‐Saëns and Berlioz.

There’s something about French composers! When Hector Berlioz wanted to impress a girl, he couldn’t just write her a simple love song. His Fantastic Symphony is just that, a headlong, opium‐fuelled fantasy of obsessive love, violent betrayal, satanic rites and death on the guillotine. It’ll knock you sideways. By comparison, Camille Saint‐Saëns led a blameless life, but that didn’t stop one critic saying that his Second Piano Concerto “begins in church and ends in a bordello!” Whatever; it’s almost indecently entertaining, and when the worldbeating dream‐team of Vasily Petrenko, the Orchestra and Simon Trpčeski come together again, there’ll be no shortage of je ne sais quoi. Debussy’s sensuous Rondes de Printemps gets the sap rising.

Choose from the wide variety of high‐calibre concerts offered in Liverpool this season.