As one of the most popular of all Romantic works, Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is regularly performed and recorded today, though Lélio, its sequel, has fared less well with modern audiences and is something of a rarity. In part, the program of the Artist's hallucinations and nightmares in the Symphonie fantastique is much more vivid and coherent than the diffuse material of the follow-up work, a monodrama which tells of his return to waking life, his contemplation and rejection of suicide, and the consolations of ...
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As one of the most popular of all Romantic works, Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is regularly performed and recorded today, though Lélio, its sequel, has fared less well with modern audiences and is something of a rarity. In part, the program of the Artist's hallucinations and nightmares in the Symphonie fantastique is much more vivid and coherent than the diffuse material of the follow-up work, a monodrama which tells of his return to waking life, his contemplation and rejection of suicide, and the consolations of literature (particularly Shakespeare), and music. The orchestra alone is sufficient for Berlioz's strange and semi-autobiographical symphony, but the addition of a narrator, tenor, baritone, and chorus in Lélio seems to work against the music's programmatic flow and makes Berlioz's over-the-top story seem rather like overkill. For this two-disc album, Philippe Jordan and the Vienna Symphony present these works as a package, fulfilling Berlioz's intentions and leaving it to the...
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