Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Slatkin, Lyon NO

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 25, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERLIOZ
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestre National De Lyon
    • PERFORMER
      Leonard Slatkin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 25, 2012
    • UPC
      747313288670
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572886
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Le corsaire, Op. 21

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    2. I. Reveries: Largo - Passions: Allegro agitato e appassionato assai

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    3. II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    4. III. Scene aux Champs: Adagio

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    5. IV. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    6. V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat: Larghetto - Allegro -

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    7. V. Dies irae -

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    8. V. Ronde du sabbat -

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    9. V. Dies irae et Ronde du Sabbat (ensemble)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    10. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo (version with cornet obbligato)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Orchestre National de Lyon

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin


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