Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 54:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 414 203-2 | Recorded: 1984
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 54:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 414 203-2 | Recorded: 1984
Maestro Dutoit and his orchestra really make Berlioz' orchestral showpiece glow in all of its colorful splendour, but with enough tenderness and warm lyricism in the more reflective, dreamy parts. But 'Un bal' really sways and swaggers with appropriate grandiloquence. The 'Scene aux champs' is played wonderfully poised and concentrated, but with a lot of warmth as well, helped of course by the mellifluous, wonderfully blended tone of the orchestra.