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Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Works

Description: Genre: Classical / Box set / Audio CD released 1997-08-11 at Philips / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 1. Rêveries. Passions (L ... more

Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Works ... (Largo - Allegro agitato ed appassionato assai) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 2. Un bal (Valse: Allegro non troppo) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 3. Scène aux champs (Adagio) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 4. Marche au supplice (Allegretto non troppo) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 5. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat (Larghetto - Allegro - Ronde du Sabbat: Poco meno mosso) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 3. Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d'Hamlet - The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 Menuet des Follets - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
8 Marche hongroise - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Disc #2 Tracklisting
1 1. Le Pêcheur - José Carreras, John Constable, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 2. Choeur d'Ombres - The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 3. Chanson de brigands - Thomas Allen, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 4. Chant de bonheur - José Carreras, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 5. La harpe éolienne - Souvenirs - Renata Scheffel-Stein, Roy Jowitt, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 6. Fantaisie sur "La Tempête" de Shakespeare - The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 1. Marche funèbre (Moderato un poco lento) - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
8 2. Oraison funèbre (Adagio non tanto - Andantino un poco lento e sostenuto) - London Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Wick, Colin Davis
9 3. Apothéose (Allegro non troppo e pomposo) - The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Disc #3 Tracklisting
1 1a. Harold aux montagnes (Adagio) - Nobuko Imai, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 1b. Harold aux montagnes (Allegro) - Nobuko Imai, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 2. Marche des Pèlerins (Allegretto) - Nobuko Imai, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 3. Sérénade (Allegro assai - Allegretto) - Nobuko Imai, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 4. Orgie de brigands (Allegro frenetico - Adagio - Allegro, Tempo I) - Nobuko Imai, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 Prélude - Les Troyens à Carthage - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 No.29 Chasse royale et orage - Pantomime - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
8 No.32 Marche pour l'entrée de la reine - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
9 No.33 Ballet: a) Pas des almées - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
10 No.33 Ballet: b) Danse des esclaves - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
11 No.33 Ballet: c) Pas d'esclaves nubiennes - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
12 Rêverie et Caprice, Op.8 - Arthur Grumiaux, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edo de Waart

Disc #4 Tracklisting
1 Introduction - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 Prologue: "D'anciennes haines endormies" - Patricia Kern, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 Strophe 1: "Premiers transports que nul n'oublie" - Patricia Kern, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 Strophe 2: "Heureux enfants aux coeurs de flamme" - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Patricia Kern, The John Alldis Choir
5 Récitatif et Scherzetto: "Bientôt de Roméo" - "Mab! la messagère" - "Bientôt la mort est souveraine" - Robert Tear, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 Roméo seul - Tristesse - Concert et bal. - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 Grande fête chez les Capulets - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
8 "Ohé! Capulets! bonsoir, bonsoir!" - The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
9 Scène d'amour - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Disc #5 Tracklisting
1 Scherzo: La reine Mab, où la fée des songes - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 Convoi funèbre de Juliette: "Jetez des fleurs pour la vierge expirée!" - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, The John Alldis Choir
3 Roméo au tombeau des Capulets - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 "Quoi! Roméo de retour!" - John Shirley-Quirk, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 "Pauvres enfants que je pleure - Mais notre sang rougit leur glaive" - John Shirley-Quirk, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra
6 "Jurez donc par l'auguste symbole" - John Shirley-Quirk, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Disc #6 Tracklisting
1 Ouverture - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 Ouverture - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 Overture "Le roi Lear", Op.4 - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 Overture "Les francs-juges", Op.3 - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 Overture "Waverley", Op.1 - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 Overture "Le corsaire", Op.21 - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 Overture "Le carnaval romain", Op.9 - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Newest Review: ... for Amsterdam, Berlioz got engaged to a young pianist Camille Moke (notorious for being very flimsy with men). Unfortunately ... more

... in late 1830 he chanced to finally win the coveted Prix de Rome prize that stipulated all winners must travel to Rome for a year to "absorb the atmosphere of the immortal city" and he had to leave Camille to Paris along with his marketing of the new symphony. While in Rome he then received a letter from Camille's mother stating that the engagement was over between him and her daughter and that Camille had found somebody else. Berlioz went mad and devised the most elaborate revenge on her in traveling back...more

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Berlioz: Complete Orchestral Works: An ardent Romantic with a cause (4564 words)
by berlioz II - written on 23.05.06 (Very useful, 177 readings)
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Note, this is meant as a tribute rather than some all-encompassing biography of the man, concentrating on various thoughts I have of him rather than just facts of his life's events. OF BERLIOZ AND HIS YOUTH Hector Berlioz is the archetype of who you could term as a "romantic". Standing as one of the first pure representations of a new generation of artists that had no connections to the more stately and aristocratic Classical era and was a self-sustaining "artiste" without any high-bred patrons to help along, Berlioz forged his sense of poetic art without any restrictions to décor or expectations. However it was originally ...

Imagination to spare (289 words)
by Pingu - written on 30.06.00 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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Berlioz's was a composer with a truly huge imagination and not enough technique to realise his ideas. This wasn't all his fault. He continually banged heads with the authorities in French conservatoires - who were too set on preserving tradition - until he found it rather difficult to gain proper training in harmony and counterpoint. And when he did have access to training he wasn't always listening. In many ways though, his weaknesses are also his strengths, since he developed a truly personal approach to harmony. This seems to have been to take a note of the melody and then harmonise it using almost any acceptable chord into which that note fits. ...

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