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Hector Berlioz
19) Berlioz
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
André Previn tells the story behind Berlioz's Symphony fantastique inspired by his obsessive love for an actress he had seen in a play. Key themes and passages are then examined, and analyzed before the Royal Philharmonic plays the entire symphony.
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
None
Formats
Description
This 1993 recording must be hailed as a document of supreme historical importance as it is the first audio-visual live recording of a concert given by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Six years later the orchestra voted by a large majority to appoint Rattle its new principal conductor and artistic director in succession to Claudio Abbado. Even at this early date Rattle was already attracting attention not only with the masterly conducting...