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Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) - Symphonie fantastique - ORR - John Eliot Gardiner
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scarabou
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31 Oct 2010 15:27:51
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Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) - Symphonie fantastique (original 1830 orchestration on period instruments) - ORR - John Eliot Gardiner
APE (EAC Rip) + CUE + LOG files | scans HQ (complete booklet + covers) | DDD | TT: 53:19 | 178 MB + 101 MB (scans)
Release Date: 5 Oct 2000 | Recorded: Ancien Conservatoire, Paris, September 1991
APE (EAC Rip) + CUE + LOG files | scans HQ (complete booklet + covers) | DDD | TT: 53:19 | 178 MB + 101 MB (scans)
Release Date: 5 Oct 2000 | Recorded: Ancien Conservatoire, Paris, September 1991
| “ | Why not imagine that today is December 5, 1830, rather than December 5, 2003? And that you are a Parisian concertgoer, more or less knowledgeable about the music of the time, including that of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose symphonies were just in the process of "being discovered" by Parisians of the time? Place yourself, if you will, in the concert hall of the Paris Conservatoire on this date, to hear the first public performance of any work by a young French composer – still six days shy of his 27th birthday – who, in the previous two years, had been dramatically affected by hearing Beethoven's symphonies. That Frenchman was of course Hector Berlioz, and his work that received its premiere on December 5, 1830 was his Symphonie fantastique. And, if you had been one of the concertgoers at this premiere, as you proceeded to your seat, you would take in the vista of an orchestra whose likes (and size) you had never seen before, one with four harps across the front, a battery of timpani arrayed across the rear, and, as well, a number of woodwind and brass instruments never before seen in such an ensemble. An unusually young man with an unruly mop of red hair would take the podium, thence to lead the orchestra in a near-hour-long work that would affect the course of musical history for a century to come. The work would be an instant success, and young Berlioz, unruly red mop and all, would become an overnight celebrity as a result. What John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique have endeavored to do in this recording is nothing less than to recapture the excitement of that premiere, right down to details such as the actual performance venue and the incorporation of period instruments used by Berlioz then but seldom since. This is as close as one could possibly come to recreating that evening, and the recreation is a splendid, even smashing, success. | ” |
Performers:
Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
CD Tracks:
1. Reveries - Passions (Largo - Allegro agitato e appassionato assai)
2. Un bal (Valse. Allegro non troppo)
3. Scene aux champs (Adagio)
4. Marche au supplice (Allegretto non troppo)
5. Songe d'une nuit de sabbat (Larghetto - Allegro - Dies irae - Ronde du Sabbat (Un peu retenu) - Dies irae et Ronde du sabbat ensemble)
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Posted By:
xoconostle
Date:
31 Oct 2010 17:30:17
I remember when this recording was released. "Controversial" because of the historically accurate instrumentation, ha ha. Thank you very much Scarabou!
Posted By:
parbold
Date:
31 Oct 2010 17:40:27
thank you - a great recording!
Posted By:
Igone
Date:
31 Oct 2010 17:51:27
Thank you very much !
Posted By:
kwork
Date:
31 Oct 2010 20:24:28
Excellent! Thank you very much!
Posted By:
Galahad
Date:
02 Nov 2010 09:53:57
Wonderfull recording - thank you - no Booklet with my download.
Posted By:
yerbas07
Date:
02 Nov 2010 10:58:56
Magnífico, Scarabou. Una de mis versiones favoritas en mi colección de sinfonías fnatásticas.
Posted By:
Chris_S
Date:
05 Nov 2010 09:39:37
Brilliant scarabou Thanks very much for the re-up :)
Posted By:
will parker
Date:
08 Nov 2010 12:26:54
Thanks for this post.
Posted By:
crab9
Date:
17 Nov 2010 12:56:28
Many thanks.
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