Fantastique

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Release Date: 3rd Jul 2015
Catalogue No: COV91508
Label: Coviello
Length: 61 minutes

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Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz, Op. 65, J. 260

Work length9:55

Argovia philharmonic
Douglas Bostock

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Work length51:58

Argovia philharmonic
Douglas Bostock

I. Rêveries - Passions

Track length13:23

II. Un bal

Track length6:40

III. Scène aux champs

Track length16:28

IV. Marche au supplice

Track length5:21

V. Songe d'une nuit du sabbat

Track length10:06

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Hector Berlioz was a great admirer of German music. The French composer particularly relished the intellectual depth he found in the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, a dimension that he often missed in the music of his homeland. Besides Beethoven, Berlioz was equally inspired by one of the younger generation of composers, Carl Maria von Weber. While Berlioz’s orchestration of Carl Maria von Weber’s Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the dance) directly expresses his reverence of the German composer, the background to the Symphonie fantastique is rather more complicated. Berlioz combines Beethoven’s wealth of ideas with the innovative and “characteristic” sound effects he had encountered in von Weber’s Der Freischütz. In doing so, he creates an eminently personal work that clearly departs from his musical role models.

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