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Berlioz: Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie / Gielen, Vienna Radio Symphony
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Berlioz: Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie / Gielen, Vienna Radio Symphony

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Composer
BERLIOZ, HECTOR
Artist
Wiener Singakademie, Gielen
Format
CD
Label
Orfeo
Released
Apr 02, 2021
Catalog #
ORF-C210071
UPC
4011790210711

About

Hector Berlioz‘ Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie was a sequel to his Symphonie fantastique, the second part of the Episode of the life of an artist, which had premiered in 1830 at the Paris Conservatory. The piece that is made up of six sections was written and composed during his travels to and in Italy; for this he made use in part of material that he had already prefabricated for the prestigious Rome Prize. Berlioz and the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, whose rejection he had tried to compensate in the Symphonie fantastique, got married in 1833. (It should be noted that marriage by no means turned out to be the fulfillment of all dreams.) In his memoirs about Lélio’s premiere performance in December 1832 at the Paris Conservatory, Berlioz noted the following phrases about his future wife: “... the passionate character of the work, its ardent melodies, its exclamations of love, its outbursts of anger [...] must have made an unexpected and deep impression on her sensitive nature and poetic imagination. [...] When in the monodrama the actor Bocage, who recited the role of Lélio (that is, myself), pronounced the following words: ‘Oh, if I could only find her, the Juliet, the Ophelia for whom my heart is searching!’ […] she thought to herself: ‘My God! ... Juliet, Ophelia ... there’s no doubt, he means me ... And he still loves me as before …’” Michael Gielen conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Singakademie with Herbert Lippert and Geert Smits as highly acclaimed soloists and Joachim Bissmeier as narrator in an absorbing live capture that took place on 7 Dec 2000 at the Vienna Concert Hall.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Monologue: Gott! Ich lebe noch! (Lélio) 02:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    Monologue: Gott! Ich lebe noch! (Lélio)
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  2. 2 Ballade de Goethe: L'onde frémit (Horatio, Lélio) 05:01
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ballade de Goethe: L'onde frémit (Horatio, Lélio)
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Geert Smits, Joachim Bissmeier
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  3. 3 Monologue: Seltsame Beharrlichkeit einer Erinnerung! (Lélio) 02:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    Monologue: Seltsame Beharrlichkeit einer Erinnerung! (Lélio)
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  4. 4 Choeur d'ombres: Froid, de la mort (Lélio, Chorus) 07:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    Choeur d'ombres: Froid, de la mort (Lélio, Chorus)
    Duration
    07:05
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
    Ensemble
    Wiener Singakademie, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  5. 5 Monologue: O Shakespeare! (Lélio) 02:48
    Track
    5
    Title
    Monologue: O Shakespeare! (Lélio)
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  6. 6 Chanson de brigands: J'aurais cent ans (La Capitaine, Chorus) 03:59
    Track
    6
    Title
    Chanson de brigands: J'aurais cent ans (La Capitaine, Chorus)
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Herbert Lippert
    Ensemble
    Wiener Singakademie, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  7. 7 Monologue: Wie irrt mein Geist umher! (Lélio) 01:38
    Track
    7
    Title
    Monologue: Wie irrt mein Geist umher! (Lélio)
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  8. 8 Chant de bonheur: Ô mon bonheur! (Voix imaginaire de Lélio) 05:31
    Track
    8
    Title
    Chant de bonheur: Ô mon bonheur! (Voix imaginaire de Lélio)
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Geert Smits
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  9. 9 Monologue: Oh! Das ich sie nicht finden kann… (Lélio) 01:23
    Track
    9
    Title
    Monologue: Oh! Das ich sie nicht finden kann… (Lélio)
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  10. 10 La harpe éolienne - Souvenirs 03:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    La harpe éolienne - Souvenirs
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  11. 11 Monologue: Wozu sich in solch trügerischen Illusionen wiegen? (Lélio) 03:32
    Track
    11
    Title
    Monologue: Wozu sich in solch trügerischen Illusionen wiegen? (Lélio)
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
  12. 12 Fantasie sur La Tempête de Shakespeare: Miranda! (Chorus) 14:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    Fantasie sur La Tempête de Shakespeare: Miranda! (Chorus)
    Duration
    14:26
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Ensemble
    Wiener Singakademie, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen
  13. 13 Monologue: Genug für heute (Lélio) 01:26
    Track
    13
    Title
    Monologue: Genug für heute (Lélio)
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Hector Berlioz
    Performer
    Joachim Bissmeier
    Ensemble
    Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
    Conductor
    Michael Gielen