麻豆社

They call it 'Duende' - the untamed passion at the heart of flamenco. For the poet Gabriel Garcia Lorca, it was 鈥渢hat mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain鈥�, and it鈥檚 the driving spirit behind Coll鈥檚 extraordinary Ciudad sin sue帽o (鈥淭he city that never sleeps鈥�), a piano concerto inspired by an impossible dream, played today by the superb Elisabeth Brauss with the composer himself conducting.

A composer always hears things differently, and Coll has made his concerto the centrepiece of a whole concert inspired by fantasy at it most thrillingly physical. He opens with Honegger鈥檚 uninhibited sonic scrum-down before diving into the psychedelic imagination of the young Prokofiev: a musical fairytale where princesses live inside giant oranges and laughter proves an alarmingly potent medicine. You鈥檒l already know the tunes: now hear them in 3D and full colour with the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra.