Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at March 9, 2023

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Stereo Version) (1963)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96.0 kHz | Time - 45:10 | 816 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

Berlioz, the passionate, ardent, irrepressible genius of French Romanticism, left a rich and original oeuvre which exerted a profound influence on 19th century music. Berlioz developed a profound affinity toward music and literature as a child. Sent to Paris at 17 to study medicine, he was enchanted by Gluck's operas, firmly deciding to become a composer.

Details

Olga Borodina, Wiener Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & La Mort de Cléopâtre [SACD ISO +FLAC] Vinyl & HR

Posted by at Sept. 9, 2024

Valery Gergiev, Wiener Philharmoniker, Olga Borodina -
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & La Mort de Cléopâtre (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 72:07 minutes | Artwork (PDF) | 4,46 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork (PDF) | 1,99 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Artwork (PDF) | 1,54 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Decca/Philips # 470 632-2

Valery Gergiev turns in a generally fine Symphonie fantastique, one that really heats up in the last two movements, as any good performance must. The March to the Scaffold has an aptly menacing character, with very clearly voiced timpani and plenty of panache to the brass playing. The finale begins quite quickly and never lets up; it has the special Berliozian frenzy that so many versions never manage to capture. Elsewhere the results are a bit more variable…

Details

Lyon National Orchestra & Leonard Slatkin - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 20, 2019

Lyon National Orchestra & Leonard Slatkin - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 70:30 minutes | 2.33 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its autobiographical tale describes a young musician’s opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage.

Details

Olga Borodina, Wiener Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & La Mort de Cléopâtre [SACD ISO +FLAC] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Sept. 9, 2024

Details

Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Marches. Overtures (2005) [SACD ISO+HiRes FLAC] Vinyl & HR

Posted by tiburon at March 11, 2017

Oh my God! Wow!!! Are you ready to be terrorized by a March that literally makes you feel as if you ARE the person being marched to the scaffold or a Witch’s Sabbath that makes you feel as if Witches are right there harassing you? For the longest time I merely listened to the Symphonie Fantastique as a disinterested onlooker of the proceedings depicted in the music. I never felt an involvement with the music because of the performers involved—UNTIL NOW!!

Details

Ataulfo Argenta - Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique by Ataúlfo Argenta (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 14, 2024

Ataulfo Argenta - Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique by Ataúlfo Argenta (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:56 minutes | 934 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Ataúlfo Argenta Maza (November 19, 1913 in Castro-Urdiales, Cantabria - January 21, 1958 in Los Molinos, Madrid) was a Spanish pianist and conductor. He married Juana Pallares Guisasola, with whom he had five children, one of these, Fernando Argenta (1945-2013), was a popular presenter and popularizer of classical music in RNE in the second half of the twentieth century.

Details

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique (Live) (Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles - 2008) (2018) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at July 18, 2022

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique (Live) (Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles - 2008) (2018) [24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 60:51 minutes | 950 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties (Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period.

Details

Andre Cluytens, Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (2016) SACD ISO Vinyl & HR

Posted by at Aug. 29, 2024

Andre Cluytens, Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (2016)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Cover included | 01:12:17 min | 2,93 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Tower Records

One of the best recordings of the "Symphonie Fantastique". Cluytens's representative recording is even more attractive with new mastering!

Details

Andre Cluytens, Philharmonia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (2016) SACD ISO Vinyl & HR

Posted by murena at Aug. 29, 2024

One of the best recordings of the "Symphonie Fantastique". Cluytens's representative recording is even more attractive with new mastering!

Details

Daniel Harding - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie (2016) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 18, 2017

Daniel Harding - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 70:45 minutes | 683 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

A world might seem to divide the unbridled Romanticism of Berlioz from the highly controlled art of Rameau, standard-bearer of the French Late Baroque. And yet, at a distance of less than a century ('Hippolyte' was premiered in 1733, the 'Fantastique' in 1830), the same passion links two works more similar than their stylistic divergence might suggest. There is the same audacity in the orchestration, combined with an innate sense of drama that springs repeated rhythmic and harmonic surprises.

Details