Naxos
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Slatkin, Lyon NO
$9.99
Details
- Composer
- BERLIOZ
- Artist
- Leonard Slatkin
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Sep 25, 2012
- Catalog #
- 8572886
- UPC
- 747313288670
About
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
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 Le corsaire, Op. 21 08:06
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Le corsaire, Op. 21
- Duration
- 08:06
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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2 I. Reveries: Largo - Passions: Allegro agitato e appassionato assai 14:37
- Track
- 2
- Title
- I. Reveries: Largo - Passions: Allegro agitato e appassionato assai
- Duration
- 14:37
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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3 II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo 06:38
- Track
- 3
- Title
- II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo
- Duration
- 06:38
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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4 III. Scene aux Champs: Adagio 17:20
- Track
- 4
- Title
- III. Scene aux Champs: Adagio
- Duration
- 17:20
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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5 IV. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo 07:01
- Track
- 5
- Title
- IV. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo
- Duration
- 07:01
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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6 V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat: Larghetto - Allegro - 03:31
- Track
- 6
- Title
- V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat: Larghetto - Allegro -
- Duration
- 03:31
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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7 V. Dies irae - 01:57
- Track
- 7
- Title
- V. Dies irae -
- Duration
- 01:57
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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8 V. Ronde du sabbat - 02:51
- Track
- 8
- Title
- V. Ronde du sabbat -
- Duration
- 02:51
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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9 V. Dies irae et Ronde du Sabbat (ensemble) 01:49
- Track
- 9
- Title
- V. Dies irae et Ronde du Sabbat (ensemble)
- Duration
- 01:49
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin
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10 Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo (version with cornet obbligato) 06:43
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo (version with cornet obbligato)
- Duration
- 06:43
- Composer
- Hector Berlioz
- Ensemble
- Orchestre National de Lyon
- Conductor
- Leonard Slatkin