Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 / Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 / Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY cover $36.00 Out of Stock
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 / Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin

[ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Saturday 25 April 2015

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Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its 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.

24-bit, 96 kHz Stereo and Surround recordings

Tracks:

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
including an alternative version of Un bal with cornet obbligato
Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21