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To judge any performance of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, one must look beyond the portrayal of its sensational program to see how well it coheres as a symphony. Berlioz may have been the maddest of the Romantics, but he was quite sane in planning his work's design, and this daring score is still dependent on form to effectively tell its tale. Michael Tilson Thomas, a skillful conductor of Romantic symphonies, understands that the Symphonie fantastique is more than an episodic tone poem, and he lays out its five movements with steadiness and a clear sense of trajectory. Reveries-Passions, A Ball, and the Scene in the Fields are properly treated as symphonic movements in the Sonata-Allegro, Scherzo, and Adagio scheme established by Beethoven. Taken together because they are connected in the narrative, the last two movements may be seen as an innovation on Beethoven's compound Finale in his Symphony No. 9. In Tilson Thomas' carefully paced and calculated reading, the "March to the Scaffold" and the "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" are truly shocking and blasphemous, and all the pent-up fury of the San Francisco Symphony is unleashed in these blood-curdling hallucinations. Recorded in 1997-1998, this 2004 reissue also offers excerpts from Berlioz's Lélio. RCA's recording is wonderfully vivid and resonant.
© TiVo
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Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Hector Berlioz)
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Lélio, ou le retour à la vie, Op. 14bis, H. 55 (Hector Berlioz)
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Performer - Vance George, Chorus Master - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
Andreas Neubronner, Producer - Markus Heiland, Recording Engineer - Hector Berlioz, Composer - Andreas Torkler, Re-Mastering Engineer - San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Performer - Vance George, Chorus Master - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Performer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
(P) 1998 BMG Music
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To judge any performance of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, one must look beyond the portrayal of its sensational program to see how well it coheres as a symphony. Berlioz may have been the maddest of the Romantics, but he was quite sane in planning his work's design, and this daring score is still dependent on form to effectively tell its tale. Michael Tilson Thomas, a skillful conductor of Romantic symphonies, understands that the Symphonie fantastique is more than an episodic tone poem, and he lays out its five movements with steadiness and a clear sense of trajectory. Reveries-Passions, A Ball, and the Scene in the Fields are properly treated as symphonic movements in the Sonata-Allegro, Scherzo, and Adagio scheme established by Beethoven. Taken together because they are connected in the narrative, the last two movements may be seen as an innovation on Beethoven's compound Finale in his Symphony No. 9. In Tilson Thomas' carefully paced and calculated reading, the "March to the Scaffold" and the "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" are truly shocking and blasphemous, and all the pent-up fury of the San Francisco Symphony is unleashed in these blood-curdling hallucinations. Recorded in 1997-1998, this 2004 reissue also offers excerpts from Berlioz's Lélio. RCA's recording is wonderfully vivid and resonant.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:22
- Main artists: Michael Tilson Thomas
- Composer: Hector Berlioz
- Label: RCA Red Seal
- Genre: Klassiek
(P) 2004 BMG Music
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