Leonard Slatkin / Orch.National De Lyon -Symphonie Fantastique -Naxos CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Le Corsaire (Der Korsar) op. 21 (Ouvertüre)"
Symphonie fantastique (Episode aus dem Leben eines Künstlers) op. 14a

02. "1. R?veries - Passions: Largo - Allegro agitato e appassionato assai - Religiosamente"

03. "2. Un bal - Valse: Allegro non troppo"

04. "3. Sc?ne aux champs: Adagio"

05. "4. Marche au supplice: Allegro non troppo"

06. "5. Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat: Larghetto - Allegro -"

07. "Dies irae -"

08. "Ronde du Sabbat -"

09. "Dies irae et ronde du Sabbat"

10. "2. Un bal (Alternative Fassung mit Horn)"

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A double dose of fantastic! A composition that marked the birth of the modern symphony orchestra, it was instead through the medium of the piano that Symphonie fantastique became generally known to the public when Franz Liszt â?? a prime champion of the music of his friend, Hector Berlioz â?? made a transcription of the work for solo keyboard. The project undertaken here by Jean-FranÃ§ois Heisser and Marie-JosÃ¨phe Jude continues that respected tradition, but it doubles the stakes and multiplies the pleasure: the expanded sound palette offered by the two-keyboard piano constructed by Pleyel and housed at Parisâ??s Museum of Music gives rise to unexpected colours emanating from the shared resonator box, and their fingerings (twenty fingers strong) can reproduce the minutest details of Berliozâ??s dazzling, ground-breaking orchestral writing. The work of a master indeed! - ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON

Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. It's autobiographical tale describes a young musician's opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage. Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his tenure as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the 2008-2009 season. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. He completed his twelfth and final season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in June 2008, and finished his three-year commitment as Music Advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in June 2009. Slatkin continues as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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8572886

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