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Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination
Berlioz's imagination is legendary, but was he truly visionary orjust wildly eccentric? This week Christopher Cook dips into the music of Berlioz and his contemporaries and talks to historian Simon Schama about the spirit of French Romanticism. Spontini Overture: La Vestale BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Schubert Der Wanderer an den Mond,
D870 Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andre de Ridder
Mehul Overture: Joseph BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Kok Berlioz Irlande , Op 2 (excerpts)
Lisa Milne (mezzo), lain Burnside (piano) Rossini Overture: The Siege of Corinth
BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth Weber Konzertstuck Paul Lewis (piano),
BBCSO, conductor Tadaaki Otaka Berlioz Overture: Waverley BBC
Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Simon Schama
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Conductor:
Schubert Der Wanderer
Bass-Baritone:
Jonathan Lemalu
Piano:
Roger Vignoles
Conductor:
Andre de Ridder
Conductor:
Nicholas Kok
Conductor:
Berlioz Irlande
Unknown:
Lisa Milne
Piano:
Paul Lewis
Source: Radio Times

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