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Hector Berlioz, Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham Conducts Berlioz
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
1. Le carnival romain (Roman Carnival Overture), ouverture catact?ristique for orchestra, H.95 (Op. 9)
2. King Lear Overture (Grande Ouverture du roi Lear), for orchestra, H. 53 (Op. 4)
3. Waverly Overture (Grande Ouverture de Waverly) for orchestra, H. 26 (Op. 1)
4. Les Francs-Juges, opera, H. 23a (fragments): Overture
5. Le Corsaire, overture for orchestra, H. 101 (Op. 21)
6. Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a: Overture
7. Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a: March

CD Details

All Artists: Hector Berlioz, Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Title: Sir Thomas Beecham Conducts Berlioz
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Original Release Date: 1/1/2002
Re-Release Date: 11/7/2002
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Forms & Genres, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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CD Reviews

Great playing and interpretation; 4 stars for sound: good bu

Alan Majeska | Bad Axe, MI, USA | 04/20/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Thomas Beecham's Berlioz is famous to many listeneners from his stereo EMI French National Orchestra SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE, with the LES TROYENS March of the Trojans and LE COURSAIRE OVERTURE (Royal Philharmonic). These mono 1954 recordings are more exciting, with faster tempos and a more vital feeling or urgency about them. However, I would give 5 stars to all of Sir Thomas's later Berlioz recordings, too.

ROMAN CARNIVAL is one of the great recordings, as are LEAR and CORSAIRE.

This MARCH OF THE TROJANS is more swaggering than the EMI stereo remake.

The Royal Philharmonic play wonderfully, and were one of the 5 best orchestras in the world in 1954.

Highly recommended, unless you don't tolerate mono recordings in any form."