Luisi, De La Salle / Saint-Saëns, Berlioz by Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Frá (2011/2011), Hljómsveitarstjóri Fabio Luisi, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

The idée fixe, leitmotif of the beloved, stands at the centre of one of the most famous, romantic orchestral works of all time. Moreover, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique is a forerunner of the genre that subsequently fell under the heading of program music. The interpreter of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto not only has amazing musicality in common with the composer: Lise de la Salle, an “incredible talent,” as Joachim Kaiser put it, not only completed every stage of piano study brilliantly, but in record time as well.