Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Slatkin, Lyon NO
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Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its...
Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its autobiographical tale describes a young musician’s opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final break-up of their marriage.
"Berlioz, to me, in terms of sheer orchestral invention, anticipates Mahler. If anything, he even surpasses him. So these are some of the things that characterise Berlioz: the extremes, the dynamics, the sound, the colours of the orchestra. Ravel was more about homogenisation. And I mean that in an entirely positive sense, because he’s taking the orchestral palette and really thinking very carefully about the essence of instrumental sonorities and how they go together." – Leonard Slatkin
"Berlioz, to me, in terms of sheer orchestral invention, anticipates Mahler. If anything, he even surpasses him. So these are some of the things that characterise Berlioz: the extremes, the dynamics, the sound, the colours of the orchestra. Ravel was more about homogenisation. And I mean that in an entirely positive sense, because he’s taking the orchestral palette and really thinking very carefully about the essence of instrumental sonorities and how they go together." – Leonard Slatkin
Product Description:
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Release Date: September 25, 2012
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UPC: 747313288670
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Catalog Number: 8572886
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Label: Naxos
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Hector Berlioz
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Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
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Orchestra/Ensemble: Lyon National Orchestra
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Performer: Leonard Slatkin
Works:
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Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Ensemble: Lyon National Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
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Le corsaire Overture, Op. 21
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Ensemble: Lyon National Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
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Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 2nd movement, Scene at the Ball
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Ensemble: Lyon National Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin