{"product_id":"boulez-london-symphony-orchestra-new-york-philharmonic-bbc-symphony-orchestra-boulez-conducts-berlioz-cd","title":"Boulez  London Symphony Orchestra  New York Philharmonic  Bbc Symphony Orchestra - Boulez Conducts Berlioz (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eSony Classical announces another ten releases in it's popular series of Classical Masters. This new batch of budget-priced sets contains major recording projects by some of the 20th century's most celebrated musicians. Pierre Boulez first mounted the concert podium in the late 1950s in order to do justice do his own challenging works, but before long he had garnered the reputation of a peerless interpreter of 20th-century music tout court. Then in 1967 the modernist Boulez took the musical by surprise by turning to that arch-Romantic Hector Berlioz, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Symphonie fantastique and Lélio, the little-known work he intended as it's sequel. The result was every bit as stimulating as one might have expected from this great musical provocateur. \"For Boulez,\" opined Gramophone's original reviewer, \"the [Fantastique] is a sinister mental experience, not merely the drug-crazed torment of the programme but something colder and still more frightening.\" More recently, a New York Times critic wrote: \"This is a performance true to the composer's Gothic imagination in it's sumptuousness and menace but also icily precise in negotiating tricky rhythmic maneuvers, and oddly modern... Besides having a ferocity all it's own, [it] comes in a whole treasure box of other incisive Berlioz recordings by Mr. Boulez in his early maturity. Yvonne Minton is splendid in La Mort de Cléopâtre, flinging out regal defiance, and Jean-Louis Barrault is the perfect restless narrator for the work Berlioz wrote to continue the dream of the Fantastique, the concert autobiography Lélio.\" The new 4-album reissue also includes Yvonne Minton's \"dramatically incisive... passionate response [to Les Nuits d'été] showing her at her most movingly eloquent and [Stuart] Burrows also at his finest... Strongly recommended... highly stimulating\" (Penguin Guide).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSymphonie fantastique op. 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e London Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lélio ou Le Retour à la vie op. 14b\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jean-Louis Barrault … Lélio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e John Mitchinson … Horatio ; imaginary voice of Lélio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e John Shirley-Quirk … captain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e London Symphony Orchestra ; Chorus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Benvenuto Cellini: Ouverture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Les Troyens: Chasse royale et orage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Béatrice et Bénédict: Ouverture – Entr’acte. Sicilienne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Le Carnaval romain op. 9\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e New York Philharmonic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Les Nuits d’été op. 7\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e La Mort de Cléoptre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Yvonne Minton mezzo-soprano · Stuart Burrows tenor · BBC Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50553847611666,"sku":"190759327722","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/boulez-london-symphony-orchestra-new-york-philharmonic-bbc-symphony-orchestra-boulez-conducts-berlioz-cd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}