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Berlioz - L’Enfance du Christ, Romeo & Juliet (excerpts) | EMI - Gemini 6971752

Berlioz - L’Enfance du Christ, Romeo & Juliet (excerpts)

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Label: EMI - Gemini

Cat No: 6971752

Barcode: 5099969717529

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 7th September 2009

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Contents

Works

Berlioz, Hector

L'Enfance du Christ, op.25
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
» Festivities at the Capulet Palace
» Love scene
» Romeo Alone
» Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet
» Scherzo: Queen Mab, the Dream Fairy

Artists

Victoria de los Angeles
Nicolai Gedda
Remy Corazza
Ernest Blanc
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Andre Cluytens
Carlo Maria Giulini

Works

Berlioz, Hector

L'Enfance du Christ, op.25
Romeo et Juliette, op.17
» Festivities at the Capulet Palace
» Love scene
» Romeo Alone
» Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet
» Scherzo: Queen Mab, the Dream Fairy

Artists

Victoria de los Angeles
Nicolai Gedda
Remy Corazza
Ernest Blanc
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Andre Cluytens
Carlo Maria Giulini

About

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was the author of the text to his choral work L’Enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ) - he did not like to call it an Oratorio - and composed the music between 1850 and 1854. Like a number of his works, he did not begin with the opening. His first composition was L’adieu des Bergers (The Shepherds’ farewell) in the Second Part: La Fuite en Egypte (The Flight into Egypt), which has become a favourite and is often performed as an extract. The years of composition were not happy for Berlioz - his father had died in 1848 and two years later his wife, the Irish actress Harriet Smithson, became severely paralysed and died the same year as the work’s first performance.

The work is in three parts with four major soloists, a Narrator (tenor), Mary (mezzo-soprano), Joseph (baritone) and Herod (bass-baritone) and a four part choir.

André Cluytens’ recording dating from 1965/6 has become a classic and his admiration for the work is clear, bringing the best from the team four superb international soloists – Victoria de los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda, Roger Soyer and Ernest Blanc.

The set is completed by the recording of the orchestral music from Roméo and Juliette that Carlo Maria Giulini made with his Chicago orchestra in 1969.

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