Nashville Symphony: Symphonie Fantastique: Berlioz’ breakthrough orchestrations plus Britten’s Violin Concert #1: Feb 21 &22

Nashville Symphony

Program

György Ligeti: Concert Românesc
Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto No. 1
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Nathan Aspinall, conductor
Benjamin Beilman, violin

Saturday, February 21, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Sunday, February 22, 2026 | 2:00 PM !!! Matinee

Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Tickets available through the Nashville Symphony

Resident Conductor Nathan Aspinall makes his Classical Series debut with a program exploring passion, obsession, and orchestral brilliance.

The evening opens with György Ligeti’s vibrant Concert Românesc, a folk-inspired work bursting with color and rhythmic vitality. Violinist Benjamin Beilman then takes center stage in Benjamin Britten’s powerful and emotionally charged Violin Concerto No. 1, a work of striking intensity and lyricism.

The program culminates in Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique — the quintessential Romantic fever dream — a sweeping musical narrative of love, hallucination, and orchestral innovation.

Tickets: https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2025-2026-season/symphonie-fantastique/