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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD] [SACD]

~ Hector Berlioz (Composer), Charles M�nch (Conductor), Boston Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)

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Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Charles M�nch
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Audio CD (27 Mar 2006)
Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Hybrid SACD, SACD
Label: Living Stereo
ASIN: B000E1NWJ6

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars After more than half a century the performance and recording is still sensational!, 9 Jul 2009

By	Colin Fortune (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Charles Munch's performance of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is a classic of the gramophone: one of the very first stereo recordings made by RCA at a time when they did not have the technology to manufacture records in stereo. It was recorded in three tracks in November 1954 and was briefly available on reel to reel tape a year or so later but did not become available as a stereo recording until 1958. The present remastering is VERY up-front (you can almost hear the rosin on the strings) but it is detailed, rich and at a high level whilst also having a good sense of space.

Munch's view of the work is full of temperament. The feeling of the agonies of young love descending into drug-induced madness is caught better that anyone else I can think of. The instability of the first movement replicates the passions and reveries of the title; the ball scene whirls past at just over 6 minutes (no repeats, of course, as was common in the 1950's) with very telling harps; the country scene is one of the fastest on record and very sinister but then is followed by a steady and menacing March to the Scaffold. The Dream of the Witches' Sabbath is frantic and frenetic - quite wild. Nobody does this like Munch.

So, although there is no obligato cornet part in the Ball Scene and although the repeats are thin on the ground in all movements, this is a very special recording, with a vibrancy unsurpassed by any other. At current asking price from Amazon lovers of this hugely romantic and strange work should snap up one of the great interpretations of the century.

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