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French violinist and composer (1781–1839)
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Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique and Lélio - Philippe Jordan, Cyrille Dubois
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique and Lélio ou Le retour à la vie, this time with Philippe Jordan conducting the Wiener Symphonker wirh Cyrille Dubois, Florian Sempey and Jean-Philippe Lafont (narrator) with the Wiener Singverein from the Wiener Symphoniker's own recording label. Symphonie fantastique is ubiquitous, with numerous performances and recordings every year. But what is news is that this programme is an "extended" version, so to speak, since the symphony (op 14) and the monologue lyrique (op 14b) were designed on symmetrical principles, with numerous interconnections, forming a kind of mega symphony whose architecture is revealed by hearing the two parts together. There have been earlier recordings - Jean Martinon in 1973 being my particular favourite, but in performance, the pairing is not easy to achieve because the two parts require very different forces. Colin Davis, for example, recorded Lélio minus the all-important part of Lélio the composer, though his narration is […]
2017-05-20 01:00:00
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) La Damnation de Faust Anne Sofie Von Otter, Michael Myers, Jean-Philippe Lafont, René Schirrer Edinburgh Festival Chorus Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon John Eliot Gardiner Philips 426 199-2 (1989). Recorded 1987, live [flac, cue, log, scans]
2017-02-11 15:45:02
La lune a l’air très étrange
On this day in 1896 Oscar Wilde‘s Salomé premiered in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3teSCuUiU On this day in 1840 Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment premiered in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXIdEKTBY On this day in 1843 Verdi’s I Lombardi premiered in Milan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-K6sN9SVs0 Born on this day in 1901 tenor August Seider. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETLC37oqaI Born on this day in 1903 baritone Robert Weede. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=viHSfPpiIjM Happy 90th birthday tenor Michel Senechal. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=unx6yv7mbKI Happy 79th birthday soprano Edith Mathis. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaLSjoRQkTI Happy 72nd birthday baritone Lenus Carlson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWluFBVgBZE Happy 71st birthday soprano Magdalena Falewicz. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jhkZST9ZU Happy 66th birthday bass-baritone Jean-Philippe Lafont. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS0JVsdGwlE Happy 59th birthday soprano Gabriele Fontana. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=41TWy6kkVms
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