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Composer:
Hector Berlioz

Conductor:
Andre Previn

Background: This issue brings together Berlioz’s greatest symphony - the fantastique - and grandest choral work. The former was inspired by his wish to impress the actress, Harriet Smithson, with whom he had become infatuated seeing her as Juliet as well as Hamlet’s Ophelia. He invoked her in all five movements by employing a theme – an “idée fixe” – in this autobiographical work which has become not only well known and extremely popular. The “Grande Messe des Morts” or Requiem requires such enormous forces to make its full effect that performances are necessarily rare events. With the main orchestra and chorus occupying the centre Berlioz employs brass bands to the left, right, behind and even behind the conductor giving the Tuba mirum section in the Dies Irae a spectacular effect on the listener. Parts of the Requiem, however, are handled with extreme delicacy thus when the full forces come together their impact is even more thrilling.

CATALOGUE NR: 2642992
RECORD LABEL: EMI Gemini
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 02-Mar-2009

COMPOSER: Hector Berlioz
TRACKS: Grande Messe des morts - Requiem op.5. Symphonie fantastique - episodes in the life of an artist op.14.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andre Previn

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