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Desire for eternal youth, passion for love, insatiable thirst for knowledge and finally a dizzying descent into the infernal abyss: such is the dreadful fate of the famous Faust. This concert version, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, allows us to hear this work with the strength and audacity of the first Berlioz: a dark and resplendent masterpiece... to be damned for!
Victor Hugo and Hernani, Delacroix and Liberty Leading the People, Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique: these are the three parts of the birth of French Romanticism. A veritable musical autobiography of the brilliant composer, this Fantastique, which includes Reveries, Passions, a Ball, a Scene in the Fields, the Supplice March and a Dream, conducted by the great Sir John Eliott Gardiner, res...
The difficulties of interpretation and the monumentality of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini make it a monster as feared as it is admired. An interpretative challenge brilliantly met by conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his musical forces, who present this mythical work in a version set in the heart of Ciceri's historic decor dating from 1837!
Desire for eternal youth, passion for love, insatiable thirst for knowledge and finally a dizzying descent into the infernal abyss: such is the dreadful fate of the famous Faust. This concert version, conducted by François-Xavier Roth, allows us to hear this work with the strength and audacity of the first Berlioz: a dark and resplendent masterpiece... to be damned for!
Victor Hugo and Hernani, Delacroix and Liberty Leading the People, Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique: these are the three parts of the birth of French Romanticism. A veritable musical autobiography of the brilliant composer, this Fantastique, which includes Reveries, Passions, a Ball, a Scene in the Fields, the Supplice March and a Dream, conducted by the great Sir John Eliott Gardiner, res...
The difficulties of interpretation and the monumentality of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini make it a monster as feared as it is admired. An interpretative challenge brilliantly met by conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his musical forces, who present this mythical work in a version set in the heart of Ciceri's historic decor dating from 1837!