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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

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BirminghamSymphonie Fantastique

© Andrew Fox
Debussy, Gipps, Berlioz
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; François Leleux

Paris50 ans du Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris / Orchestre de Paris - Klaus Mäkelä

© Denis Allard
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, choral symphony
Orchestre de Paris; Klaus Mäkelä; Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris; Marianne Crebassa; Jean Teitgen; Richard Wilberforce

New York CityBerlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble
Berlioz
Orchestra of St Luke's; Louis Langrée; Benjamin Bernheim

ViennaORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

© Marco Borggreve
Mendelssohn, Wellesz, Berlioz
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ingo Metzmacher; Tabea Zimmermann

CologneOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

© Laurent Rouvrais
Brahms, Berlioz
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Jaap van Zweden; Renaud Capuçon; Gautier Capuçon
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From chamber intimacy to the edge of chaos: Ehnes and Zhang in Seattle

Xian Zhang conducts the Seattle Symphony © Seattle Symphony | James Holt
James Ehnes brings chamber-like intimacy to Bruch before Xian Zhang drives Symphonie fantastique from private obsession to hallucinatory spectacle.
*****
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Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust diabolically good at the Proms

Gerald Finley and Les Siècles © BBC | Mark Allan
Les Siècles and Jakob Lehmann are joined by four fine soloists for Berlioz’s “dramatic legend” on Goethe's Faust. 
****1
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Rumble! A Berlioz Requiem to shake the soul at the BBC Proms

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra a shattering – but also moving – account of the Grande Messe des morts at the Royal Albert Hall
*****
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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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