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Re: Top 3 All Time Favourite Artists

Dec 19, 2013, 16:13

Squid Tempest wrote:

[quote="riverman"]

Wow! Gotta get some Berlioz! Which of his albums do you recommend?!

The Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts)is a masterpiece. And a good version is the LSO live at St Pauls (conducted by Colin Davis). This youtube clip is a Proms recording from the 90s - the Dies Irae with the full arsenal of timps and 4 brass bands dotted at different corners of the Albert Hall starts at 25 mins, but the great thing about the work is the space to the sound - the Offertorium later is mainly based around the chorus signing two notes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuW2z1fOiQc. The sad thing is he rarely got to hear the whole thing - most orchestras weren't big enough, or of sufficient quality to pull it off.

My second favourite piece is probably Romeo and Juliet - pretty epic in scope and vision as well, it didn't touch me as much tho until seeing the LSO perform it a month or so ago. Another commission - this time from the virtuoso viola player Paganini who was a rich man and terminally ill at that point but clearly saw Berlioz as a genius worth backing.

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