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Fantaisie Sur La Temp?te de Shaikespeare 01. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir "Prologue. Andante non troppo lento -" 02. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir "La Temp?te. Allegro assai, ma primo poco... -" 03. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir "L'Action. Un poco meno mosso -" 04. Toronto Mendelssohn Choir "Le D?noument. Tempo I. Pi? animato con fuoco"
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 05. Toronto Symphony Orchestra "I R?veries (Dreams)." 06. Toronto Symphony Orchestra "II Un Bal (A Ball)." 07. Toronto Symphony Orchestra "III Sc?ne aux champs (Scene in the Country)." 08. Toronto Symphony Orchestra "IV Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)." 09. Toronto Symphony Orchestra "V Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat (Dream of a Witches' Sabbath)."
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| | Description: | 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-François Heisser and Marie-Josèphe 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! - TORONTO S.O./ANDREW DAVISThe Fantaisie sur la Tempete de Shakespeare was composed shortly after Berlioz had won the coveted Prix de Rome (at the fourth attempt) with his cantata Sardanapale, and was originally conceived as a concert overture, with chorus. After various reworkings of the material, the four-movement Fantaisie, as recorded here, became the finale of Berlioz's 'monodrama' Lelio- a juxtaposition of existing material interlinked with dramatic monologues recited by the 'artist' at the center of the work. Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz's best-known work by some distance, remains an evergreen in the orchestral repertoire, and beloved of audiences the world over. The idiomatic approach to orchestration, grounded in Berlioz's musical training in French provincial wind-bands, and the revolutionary approach to the prevailing conventions of musical form at the time shine through in the five-movement masterpiece, which remains one of the most vividly programmatic symphonies ever written. This recording was made after a pair of performances in September 2018 in the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and is made in Surround Sound.Recording venue Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 20 ? 22 September 2018
Comes in a standard jewel case with transparent tray, with 36-page booklet
Liner notes in English, German and French
Front cover Préparatifs pour le sabbat des sorcières (Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath) (first half of the ninteenth century) by anonymous French painter / Musée d'art et d'histoire de Meudon, Meudon, France / Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images
? 2019 Chandos Records Ltd.
© 2019 Chandos Records Ltd.
Recorded in 32-bit / 352.8 kHz
Country of origin UK
TT 70:08
Additional tracklist information:
? Index track for 1 to 4: (1830 ? 31) (Fantasy On Shakespeare's The Tempest) for Chorus, Orchestra, and Piano Four Hands. Final movement from Lélio, ou Le Retour à la vie, Op. 14bis. Monodrame lyrique. Dedicated to His son, Louis Berlioz
? Index track for 5 to 9: (1830) en cinq parties (Fantasy Symphony in Five Movements). Épisodes de la vie d'un artiste (Episode in an Artist's Life). Dedicated to His Majesty Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia
Photos:
? © Dario Acosta Photography (Sir Andrew Davis, booklet p. 9 & back)
? © Jag Gundu / TSO (Performance session, booklet p. 16/17, 22/23 & 30/31) | | | Manufacturer No.: |
CHSA5239 |
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