Berlioz Rediscovered (CD + DVD)
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Label: Decca
Cat No: 4834687
Format: CD + DVD
Number of Discs: 9
Release Date: 22nd March 2019
Contents
Works
Fleurs des landes, op.13La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
La Mort d'Ophelie
Melodies (9), op.2 'Irlande'
Messe solennelle, H20
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
Scenes (8) de Faust, H33
Tristia, op.18
Artists
April Cantelo (soprano)Helen Watts (contralto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Richard Salter (baritone)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Gerard Causse (viola)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
Michael Myers (tenor)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon
Conductor
John Eliot GardinerWorks
Fleurs des landes, op.13La Damnation de Faust, op.24 H111
La Mort d'Ophelie
Melodies (9), op.2 'Irlande'
Messe solennelle, H20
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
Scenes (8) de Faust, H33
Tristia, op.18
Artists
April Cantelo (soprano)Helen Watts (contralto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Richard Salter (baritone)
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Gerard Causse (viola)
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
Michael Myers (tenor)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon
Conductor
John Eliot GardinerAbout
Brought together for the first time for the 150th anniversary of the Berlioz’s death, Decca presents this 8-CD + 1-DVD original jacket set of the ground-breaking Philips recordings. Includes the world premiere recording and Grammy Award-winning Messe solenelle alongside the key orchestral works Symphonie fantastique, Harold in Italy and the “dramatic symphony” Roméo et Juliette and the “dramatic legend” La Damnation de Faust. The set is accompanied by performances on DVD of Symphonie fantastique (from the same hall in which it was premiered in 1830) and the Messe solennelle from Westminster Cathedral in 1992 (the first performance of this large-scale Mass for 150 years).
“... [an] outstanding ‘period instrument’ version. The word that comes to mind repeatedly during the driven but crisply articulate first two movements is ‘dashing’. Gardiner is excellent at long crescendos: well controlled build-ups, then the emotion boiling over at the climax. It isn’t just in the big outpourings of feeling that he scores: at the beginning of the central lonely pastorale, the flavoursome 19th-century French oboe and cor anglais are two voices calling to each other across wide spaces, in the background a sense of growing unease. Discomfort and deliciously grotesque orchestral colouring grow splendidly during the ‘March to the Scaffold’. The finale is a sinister spine-tingler ...” – BBC Music Magazine on Symphonie fantastique
“Gardiner’s Symphonie fantastique is of endless fascination and enjoyment … he brings out the daring originality of Berlioz's visionary inspiration and draws hugely spirited, yet refined playing from his periodinstrument band. Exemplary sound and balance, too.” – Gramophone
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