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Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination
Limitless new horizons opened to Berlioz when he discovered the music of Beethoven, the poetry of Byron and the warmth and vivacity of Italy. Christopher Cook explores the music of Berlioz's influential contemporaries and talks to the composer's biographer David Cairns about these potent sources of inspiration. Beethoven Bagatelles, Op 126 AshleyWass (piano)
Paganini Caprices, Op 1: No 16 in G minor; No 24 in A minor llya Gringolts (violin) Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat, Op 22
Jonathan Biss (piano) Berlioz Harold in Italy
Philip Dukes (viola), BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
David Cairns
Piano:
Jonathan Biss
Viola:
Philip Dukes
Conductor:
Rumon Gamba
Source: Radio Times

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