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Berlioz, Monteux
Symphonie Fantastique / Overtures
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): Reveries, Passions
2. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): Un bal
3. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): Scene in the Country
4. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): March to the Scaffold
5. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): Dream of a Witches' Sabbath
6. Overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini' (Grande Ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini) for orchestra, H. 76b (Op. 23)
7. Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a: Act II Overture
8. Marche de Rákóczy (Rákóczy March), for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust), H. 109

CD Details

All Artists: Berlioz, Monteux
Title: Symphonie Fantastique / Overtures
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: RCA
Release Date: 7/16/1996
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Marches, Opera & Classical Vocal, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 090266189427

CD Reviews

Great Berlioz from a great Maitre

07/12/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This San Francisco Symphonie is vastly superior to Monteux's scattered remake from Vienna. The orchestra is trained int the French idiom and its virtuosity gets full measure of the music. While not on the level of Paray/Detroit, Monteux and his band are totally-convincing adherents to the Gallic tradition of this masterpiece. The rest of the issue can be praised for similar reasons, and the old RCA sound from the 1940s has been as carefully reworked as a car enthusiast would lovingly restore a '48 Fleetwood. And like the Fleetwood, this RCA reissue is a total class act.Any Berliozians worth their salt will be filing this alongside their Paray, Markevitch, Munch and Martinon. . ."