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

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.

"The Symphonie Fantastique…[is a] revolutionary work [that] provoked much controversy. This ground-breaking Blu-ray Audio disc features an exemplary recording the Symphonie Fantastique by the Orchestre National de Lyon under Leonard Slatkin together with the overture to Le corsaire" © 2014 new-classics.co.uk

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