Berlioz let his imagination run wild in his music, finding inspiration in all manner of sources, including his own turbulent personal life. His experience of powerful, unrequited love finds its expression in the emotionally charged Symphonie fantastique, the story of an artist’s ‘hopeless love’, complete with waltzes, witches and a hallucinogenic nightmare.

There are few orchestras with the music of Berlioz more thoroughly in their blood than the LSO, and here Valery Gergiev brings to bear his opulent interpretation of this landmark piece.

Composer Berlioz
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Performers London Symphony Orchestra

Symphonie fantastique
1. I. Rêveries - Passions
2. II. Un bal
3. III. Scène aux champs
4. IV. Marche au supplice
5. V. Songe d'une nuit de sabbat

6. Overture: Waverley

Release date 2014
LSO0757 | 0822231175728

Digital booklet in English / Notes de programme en français / Einführungstexte auf Deutsch

Producer James Mallinson
Engineers Classic Sound Ltd
Recorded 31st October 2013 & 14th November 2013 in the Barbican Hall, London

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