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Gardiner’s Revolutionary Berlioz? Take The Good With The Ugly

Jens F. Laurson

Artistic Quality:

  • 7

Sound Quality:

  • 8

Berlioz: “An acquired taste, but what a taste worth acquiring!” […]

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Recording Details:

Album Title: Berlioz Rediscovered
Reference Recording: Messe solennelle and Irlande: This one; Romeo et Juliette: Munch (RCA), Boulez (DG), Davis (LSO or Vienna), Harold in Italy: This one, Munch (RCA), Davis (LSO Live); Symphonique fantastique: Munch (RCA), Jansons (BR Klassik), Norrington (Hänssler), La Damnation de Faust: Chung (DG), Nagano (Erato/Warner), Rattle (LSO Live)

  • BERLIOZ, HECTOR:
    Messe solennelle; Symphonie fantastique; Roméo et Juliette; La Damnation de Faust; Harold in Italy; Tristia; Irlande (Neuf Melodies)

    Soloists: Gérard Caussé (viola); Donna Brown, April Cantelo (soprano); Catherine Robbin, Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano); Helen Watts (contralto); Jean-Luc Viala, Michael Myers, René Schirrer, Robert Tear, Jean-Laul Fouchécourt (tenor); Gilles Cachemaille, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Richard Salter (baritone)

    Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, John Eliot Gardiner

  • Record Label: Decca - 48346875
  • Medium: CD + DVD

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