Berlioz / Boulez / BBC Symphony Orchestra: Boulez Conducts Berlioz
Berlioz / Boulez / BBC Symphony Orchestra: Boulez Conducts Berlioz
Format: CD
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Artist: Berlioz / Boulez / BBC Symphony Orchestra
Label: Sony Masterworks
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 190759327722
Genre: Classical
Sony Classical announces another ten releases in it's popular series of Classical Masters. This new batch of budget-priced sets contains major recording projects by some of the 20th century's most celebrated musicians. Pierre Boulez first mounted the concert podium in the late 1950s in order to do justice do his own challenging works, but before long he had garnered the reputation of a peerless interpreter of 20th-century music tout court. Then in 1967 the modernist Boulez took the musical by surprise by turning to that arch-Romantic Hector Berlioz, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Symphonie fantastique and Lélio, the little-known work he intended as it's sequel. The result was every bit as stimulating as one might have expected from this great musical provocateur. "For Boulez," opined Gramophone's original reviewer, "the [Fantastique] is a sinister mental experience, not merely the drug-crazed torment of the programme but something colder and still more frightening." More recently, a New York Times critic wrote: "This is a performance true to the composer's Gothic imagination in it's sumptuousness and menace but also icily precise in negotiating tricky rhythmic maneuvers, and oddly modern... Besides having a ferocity all it's own, [it] comes in a whole treasure box of other incisive Berlioz recordings by Mr. Boulez in his early maturity. Yvonne Minton is splendid in La Mort de Cléopâtre, flinging out regal defiance, and Jean-Louis Barrault is the perfect restless narrator for the work Berlioz wrote to continue the dream of the Fantastique, the concert autobiography Lélio." The new 4-album reissue also includes Yvonne Minton's "dramatically incisive... passionate response [to Les Nuits d'été] showing her at her most movingly eloquent and [Stuart] Burrows also at his finest... Strongly recommended... highly stimulating" (Penguin Guide).
Tracks:
1.1 Symphonie fantastique op. 14
1.2 London Symphony Orchestra
2.1 Lélio, ou Le Retour à la vie op. 14b
2.2 Jean-Louis Barrault … Lélio
2.3 John Mitchinson … Horatio ; imaginary voice of Lélio
2.4 John Shirley-Quirk … captain
2.5 London Symphony Orchestra ; Chorus
3.1 Benvenuto Cellini: Ouverture
3.2 Les Troyens: Chasse royale et orage
3.3 Béatrice et Bénédict: Ouverture – Entr’acte. Sicilienne
3.4 Le Carnaval romain op. 9
3.5 New York Philharmonic
4.1 Les Nuits d’été op. 7
4.2 La Mort de Cléoptre
4.3 Yvonne Minton mezzo-soprano · Stuart Burrows tenor · BBC Symphony Orchestra
