An ensemble from outside the German tradition brings fresh ears to familiar music. Insula orchestra and Laurence Equilbey make their Konzerthaus debut with a programme that turns that distance into a perspective: Schumann seen from afar, and a Berlioz restored to its native sound-world.　 The　Manfred　overture opens the evening with the torments of a Byronic hero at war with himself. Then comes　Les Nuits d'été: Berlioz's orchestral song cycle on poems by Gautier, intimate, delicately scored, and rarely heard live. Franco-Canadian mezzo-soprano Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur brings her celebrated velvety tone　to this meditation on love, loss and memory.　 Schumann's Symphony No. 3 „Rhenish“ closes the programme with collective energy and broad horizons: a luminous dawn after the night's wanderings. Founded and led by Laurence Equilbey, Insula orchestra is one of Europe's foremost period-instrument ensembles, acclaimed for its distinctive approach to the Classical and Romantic repertoire.