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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

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ViennaAntoine Tamestit • Bertrand Chamayou

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Berlioz, Liszt, Shostakovich
Antoine Tamestit; Bertrand Chamayou

ParisOrchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding

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Prokofiev, Berlioz
Orchestre de Paris; Daniel Harding

ParisBerlioz Requiem

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Berlioz: Requiem "Grande Messe des morts", Op.5
Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris; Philippe Jordan; Pene Pati; Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris; Ching Lien Wu

LuganoCharles Dutoit

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Beethoven, Berlioz
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana; Charles Dutoit

PragueLa Damnation de Faust

Prague Spring Festival
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Prague Symphony Orchestra; Tomáš Netopil; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Lukáš Vasilek; Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir; Petr Louženský
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Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven

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Understatement is key in Paul Lewis' interpretation of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Adam Hickox. 
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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade

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In the CBSO Benevolent Fund concert, the orchestra tells the timeless story, set in Persia, of Scheherazade who, through her storytelling, brings about peace.

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Rhetoric over romance in Nikolai Lugansky's Chopin in Seoul

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Ludovic Morlot conducts the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in three classics from the Romantic era: Berlioz, Chopin and Schumann. 
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Benvenuto Cellini: Strassberger loses the plot at La Monnaie

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Thaddeus Strassberger’s Brussels debut presents Berlioz's opera semiseria with plenty of good music but far more visual noise. 
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Edward Gardner conducts an emotional L'Enfance du Christ in Utrecht

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The Netherlands National Radio Choir and National Children's Choir amplify the emotional intensity of Berlioz's L’ Enfance du Christ at TivoliVredenburg. 

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