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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

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AmsterdamRachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique

© Anne Bied
Nas, Rachmaninov, Berlioz
JeugdOrkest Nederland; Jurjen Hempel; Nathalia Milstein

BirminghamThe National Youth Orchestra with Thomas Adès

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Liszt, Adès, Berlioz
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Thomas Adès

SnapeThe National Youth Orchestra with Thomas Adès

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Liszt, Adès, Berlioz
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Thomas Adès

LondonBerlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’

BBC Proms
Liszt, Adès, Berlioz
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Thomas Adès

La Roque d'AnthéronNuit du piano Musique Française

Geneva International Music Competition
Couperin, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen, Berlioz, Hahn, Poulenc
Adèle Charvet; Edgar Moreau; Emmanuel Pahud; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
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Sir Simon Rattle and the OAE make Berlioz sound radically new

Sir Simon Rattle © Mark Stedman for National Concert Hall Ireland
Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment deliver a revelatory all-Berlioz programme, crowned by a sensational Symphonie Fantastique of rare clarity, colour and imagination.
*****
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Paul Lewis balances delicacy with power in understated RLPO Beethoven

Paul Lewis and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra © Gareth Jones
Understatement is key in Paul Lewis' interpretation of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Adam Hickox. 
***11
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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade

Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra © Hannah Blake-Fathers

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

****1
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Rhetoric over romance in Nikolai Lugansky's Chopin in Seoul

Nikolai Lugansky and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra © Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot conducts the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in three classics from the Romantic era: Berlioz, Chopin and Schumann. 
***11
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Benvenuto Cellini: Strassberger loses the plot at La Monnaie

John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini) © Simon Van Rompay
Thaddeus Strassberger’s Brussels debut presents Berlioz's opera semiseria with plenty of good music but far more visual noise. 
***11
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