Xavier De Maistre seen standing with a harp.

Glière’s Harp Concerto With Xavier De Maistre

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French harpist Xavier de Maistre performs Glière’s stunning Harp Concerto, before Umberto Clerici leads us through Berlioz’s orchestral masterpiece Symphonie fantastique

Rarely given the spotlight, the harp becomes the star in this luminous concerto.

Glière’s music unfolds in long, glowing lines, reminiscent of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. In the hands of Xavier de Maistre, who “plays the harp with infinite finesse and much delicacy of colour” (Gramophone), it’s an unmissable event.

Then Berlioz loses his mind. Magnificently.

In Symphonie fantastique, we’re dropped into the opium-induced fever dream of a lovesick artist: five movements, each one stranger than the last. A glittering ballroom. A march to the guillotine. And finally, a witches’ Sabbath. A sensation at its premiere and still thrilling all these years later.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

GLIÈRE Harp Concerto 
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

Artists

Conductor
Umberto Clerici
Harp
Xavier De Maistre

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Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

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Concert Hall

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