Rachmaninoff's 'Rhapsody' and Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique'

The San Diego Symphony presents
Rafael Payare, conductor
George Li, piano

Program:
William Grant Still: "Darker America"
Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43"
Hector Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14"

Jan. 28, 2022 at 8 p.m.

Music Director Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony orchestra bring us two ever-green popular favorites: Hector Berlioz's astonishingly daring "Symphonie fantastique," an early romantic epic of unrequited love and passion; and before it, the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," in which they are joined by the American pianist George Li. The program opens with American music – William Grant Still's tone poem of sorrow, hope and prayer, intended, as the composer wrote, to be "representative of the American Negro and suggest the triumph of a people over their sorrows..."

Video:
George Li performs Horowitz's "Variations on a Theme from Bizet's Opera Carmen," Liszt's "Consolation No. 3" and "La Campanella" for NPR Tiny Desk Concerts:

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